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This website teaches why team writing is important in the process. It teaches people how to deal with different business discourses and may help them become better writers. It also teaches how to implement team writing in every day life.

From Miami University in Ohio.  Comprehensive coverage about team writing exercises, includes a check sheet and the advantages of team writing.

I like this website because it talks about how team writing can benefit everyone in the group. However, this talks about it in the view of a writing team. It is definitely worth a look.

About Public Relations Article - this is from the corporate side and what corporations should look for when hiring writiers - a head's up for those of us looking for employment in the near future!

This website was real informational on different techniques to improving team writing skills. It shows you many different ways to inspire team mates. It gives you different styles of awarding and making sure your team feels wanted.

Great tips on how to improve writing in a group setting. There are good ways to improve your groups writing whether you are the best or the worst in the group. The tips worth noting are the examples of setting attainable goals, evaluation techniques and keeping up momentum.

This is a good article about the norms on a team work.  Each member of the team has to be committed to do their own part and pay attention to the content.  This article also includes how member should interact and it provides guidelines for the group to follow.

This website offers suggestions made by actual students on "surviving" and "thriving" in a group project environment. One student reiterates Team Writing by suggesting the use of a team charter. A "kick-out" clause is included here, which clear states the consequences if someone does not attend meetings or does his or her work. Other students bring up being open-minded about criticism from other team members and listening to their advice. However, this site recommends assigning roles based on the members' strengths, not on what they would like to learn. I suppose it depends on the deadline and complexity of the project.

I think an important part of part 2 of Team Writing is constructive conflict. I thought this website was useful because it provided the reader with the benefits of constructive conflict. I have taking a course called Organizational Behavior and they also stress that constructive conflict is important in a team. I also think it goes well with the team project we are working on now.

This site shows the different roles used in team writing. It goes into depth about managing times and creating schedules.

Great site on peer review and and team writing.

Online Technical Writing: Strategies for Peer-Reviewing and Team-Writing - covers both.

Here is a four-quadrant matrix geared to project teams based on Stephen Covey's work on time management. We're encouraged to "spend more time in Quadrant 2." Take a look!

Great article on Team Writing that corresponds well with the text.

One of the more important things that I got out of reading Part One is the importance of a Team charter. This website just elaborates a little more on what goes into each of the sections in the team charter.

This website is pretty useful because it has a lot of neat ideas on how to be successful in teamwriting. It also answers questions on everything from logistics to fairness of writing in groups.

This website offers more information on the phenomenon of "Groupthink," how to spot it, and how to avoid it. This is mainly intended for the workplace, but a lot of it is relevant for school groups, too. The term "Groupthink" was coined by Irving Janis, who pointed out that Groupthink occurs when there is one strong, persuasive group leader, a high level of group cohesion, and intense pressure from an outside source to make a good decision. This site suggests that when a group is in the decision-making process, in order to avoid Groupthink, they should make a point to explore objectives and alternatives, as well as to encourage members to challenge each others' ideas. The "Team Writing" text mentioned using brainstorming as a tactic, in which ideas are allowed to flow freely without any form of evaluation from the group. This site mentions such a tactic, as well as spreading out contribution to include everyone and giving each member a different perspective so that someone will always be playing the "Devil's Advocate."

Not all of this website had to do with what we read about in Part 1. However, what I found important was that it mentioned the importance of a project manager.It also discussed that meetings were important and presented different ways of non-verbal communication with our team such as emails.

This website is supplemental to Team Writing Ch. 1&2. I found it very useful.