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last.updated 3.12.06

Week 10 Exercise: Group Work Recommendations

Purpose

As you have been told throughout your academic career, collaborative work is good for you because it provides practice for a process many of you will have to do when you settle into your career. And for many of you going into professional writing or academic careers, this is true. But, as students, we tend to despise group work because certain parameters and certain behaviors can make the process quite difficult and unnecessarily frustrating. Therefore, going into group work with a sense of what can make this process successful can reduce the difficulties and frustrations. By doing this exercise you will begin to tease out some of these recommended practices that you can use for your own group work.

Writing

In 250-400 words respond to the following prompt.

Use the readings by Allen et al. and Monseau et al. to develop a list of five recommendations that you would give to groups who are collaboratively developing the Workshop project for this course. Recognizing that this is an academic project that simulates a professional project, you will also use these readings to justify your recommendations for this specific project. You can justify all of the recommendations at once or each individual recommendation.

Submit your work prior to class (7 pm) in the body of an email through Blackboard messages. Your work will receive a process evaluation.