Teaming Strategies Reading Response and Perfect Citation Practice
Team Writing: A Guide to Working in Groups
1.) Arguments about the exigence or relevance for effective and critically aware teamwriting
-The article, "Team Writing: A Guide to Working in Groups" (p.5), explains students who work
in groups or work as a team can be benefit for one another. The author, Joanna Wolfe, discusses
the relevance for effective and critically aware team-writing by stating, to improve the
educational experience through collaboration with fellow students. Educational research suggests
that people learn the most when working with peers toward a common goal. When students
discuss problems with an instructor or someone else who is considered an expert, they tend to
automatically defer to the expert's viewpoint (p.5).
2.) Several strategies that you think would help you manage a team?
-From the article, "Team Writing: A Guide to Working in Groups" (p.6), explains
strategies/methods that would help manage a team. The author, Wolfe, states three
strategies/methods used by students that were evaluated after and they are:
When working on documents, groups can structure their collaboration using one
of three basic methods: Face-to-face which is the entire team sits down and writes
the document together. Usually one or two team members sit at the computer and
type while others give input. Divided which is the group breaks the document into
sections and assigns each team member a section. Layered which is each person
on the team is assigned one or more specific roles. Each person works on the
document in turn, adding his or her own expertise to the product. The document
slowly accumulates in layers as each team member revises and improves upon
what already exists (p.6).
Several strategies that I think would help manage a team are using the layered method and faceto-face. Working as a team is great but can be challenging because some students take advantage
of others. I feel that the project should be layered and divided among the group and looked over
multiple times to make sure everyone in the group is on track.
Stasis Theory as a Strategy for Workplace Teaming and Decision Making
1.) Arguments about the exigence or relevance for effective and critically aware teamwriting
-The article, "Stasis Theory as a Strategy for Workplace Teaming and Decision Making" (p.364),
explains that team-writing is a skill that one most have and the reasons behind it. The author, H.
Allen Brizee, states current scholarship suggests that the ability to cooperate with subject-matter
experts and coworkers is the primary skill professional writers must possess as they move into
the workplace. However, an increasingly complex (technological and cultural) and dispersed
workplace challenges writers' ability to cooperate (p. 364).
2.) Several strategies that you think would help you manage a team?
-From the article, "Stasis Theory as a Strategy for Workplace Teaming and Decision Making" (p.
363), discusses strategies that would help manage a team and not come to a failure point. The
author, Brizee, explains these strategies by:
Professional writers must be able to use complex software for projects that are
often completed by multidisciplinary teams working remotely. Moreover, as
technical writers shift from content developers to project managers, our
responsibilities now include user-advocacy and supervision, further invigorating
the need for successful communication. This article offers a different vision of an
ancient heuristic stasis theory as a solution for the teaming challenges facing
today's professional writers. Stasis theory, used as a generative heuristic rather
than an eristic weapon, can help foster teaming and effective decision making in
contemporary pedagogical and workplace contexts (p.363).
Several strategies that I think would help manage a team are using stasis during invention,
audience analysis, and empirical.
References
Brizee, H. Allen. (2008). Stasis Theory as a Strategy for Workplace Teaming and Decision
Making. J. Technical Writing and Communication, Vol. 38(4).
Wolfe, Joanna. Team Writing: A Guide to Working in Groups. Boston/ New York.