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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.

To keep every one interested in a project and keep them on their toes this article tell us why constructive conflict is important, how to keep te conflicts from going beyond constructive and how to keep everything fair within a group. 

This fact sheet on resolving conflict is a great example of ch. 5.  Points out how and when it tends to arise. It also includes the 5 most dominant styles people use to deal with conflict. If you feel as if you are at a dead end with your group member(s) there is a conflict worksheet to take you step by step through fixing your issue.

This website shows how to manage conflict in a group/team setting.

This is a complete video of one talk at WordCamp Phoenix/Chandler. It is about 45 minutes long. She starts out by showing various "one-page" designs. This is really helpful because it opens up so many possibilities. I wish I could have attended WordCamp, but I had a conflict. One is scheduled here for next year.

Traditional textbook rationales for the technical writing course locate the essence of technical writing in objectivity, clarity, and neutrality, and the need for teaching it in its usefulness to employers. Such rationales, however, are unable to accommodate a notion of ethics and responsibility: if the writer merely serves the interests that employ her by reporting facts in an objective way, how can she exercise choice when ethical problems arise? An alternative view is to see technical writing as always rhetorical and involved with potentially conflicting agendas and interests, with objectivity, clarity, and neutrality serving merely as stylistic devices in the writer's rhetorical toolbox. Technical writers are rhetoricians who continually make ethical choices in serving diverse interests and negotiating between conflicting demands. The recognition of the fundamental rhetoricity of technical writing is the first step towards accommodating a meaningful notion of ethics into the technical writing curriculum.

This website discusses in more detail the finer parts of contrasting fonts. It shows how a subtle difference may bit make the hoped for impression.

D#7 HW#5 Team Writing Chapter 1&2

Good step-by-step article for effectively working with groups