Team Projects By Meg Bostick

When working on team projects, the most important thing to remember is everyone must work together! No single team member should be contributing more than anyone else in the group. A team project is a group effort.




Here are some advantages to team projects:

There is more brain power, therefore more ideas are brought to the table which makes for a more interesting and successful outcome to the project.

• Others within the group are able to provide feedback, whereas an individual project is simply done with only the individuals judgement.



• Each group member is able to put in their opinions, and give comments and concerns on the project, making it easier to make for an almost flawless



• Team members provide reassurance with helps the other team members through the stress, frustrations and lack of confidence.

On the other hand, some disadvantages to team projects include:

• The demand it places on the writers.



• Your work is subject to criticism from the other team members, based on their opinions, especially if they have a different style of writing.



• With the collaboration of everyone's input and styles of writing, the final project can be difficult to read and could very well be completely incorrect.

The writing process of a team project includes planning, researching, reviewing and revising.

Planning is the teams collaborative finding to the purpose of the project, in which the team works together to put together an outline, and divide and assign the work evenly to each member.

Researching is the planning stage in which information is gathered and used within the outline to complete the first draft.

Reviewing is the process in which each team member reviews the work of the other team members and gives their input on the piece of writing.

Revising is the writers responsibility in taking into consideration the inputs given by the other team members, and fusing these inputs to finalize the piece of writing into something close to perfect (hopefully).