This article reports findings from an institutional ethnography of university stakeholders’ writing in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, illustrating the affordances of this methodology for professional and technical communication. Drawing on interview transcripts with faculty and administrators from across the university, the authors contextualize the role of writing in the iterative, collaborative, distributed writing processes by which the university transitioned from a traditional A–F grading scheme to a pass or fail option in just a few business days. They analyze these stakeholders’ experiences, discussing some effects of this accelerated timeline on policy development, writing processes, and uses of writing technologies within this new context of remote teaching and learning.

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起草大流行政策：写作和突然的制度变革

本文报告了在 COVID-19 大流行初期大学利益相关者撰写的机构人种学研究结果，说明了这种方法论对专业和技术交流的影响。作者利用与整个大学的教职员工和管理人员的访谈记录，将写作在迭代、协作、分布式写作过程中的作用置于情境中，在该过程中，大学从传统的 A-F 评分方案转变为通过或失败的选择。几个工作日。他们分析了这些利益相关者的经验，讨论了这一加速时间表对政策制定、写作过程和在这种远程教学的新背景下写作技术的使用的一些影响。