Collaborative Analysis Prompt

General Guidelines

Now begins the group project. At some point in your career, you will need to work with others to accomplish an organization’s goals or to make a project possible. While, often, such team projects will only mean occasional check ins, other times they will mean constant collaboration to accomplish tasks. The Collaborative Analysis is the latter. As you develop your Teamwork Agreement, Research Proposal, and SWOT Report as a group, you will not only collaborate with others, but also reflect on how to make that teamwork, and an organizations communication and collaborative potential, work more effectively. Keep in mind, you are turning in only one portfolio for the entire group.

As such, this assignment is designed for you to accomplish largely on your own. I will be constantly available to answer any questions or give guidance, but you should work to develop strategies for finding information as a group. You will also use the various activities in this unit to set up each assignment.

  1. General Guidelines
  2. Teamwork Agreement
    1. 2.1. Formatting
    2. 2.2. Examples to Imitate
    3. 2.3. Getting Started
  3. Research Proposal
    1. 3.1. Formatting
    2. 3.2. Examples to Imitate
    3. 3.3. Getting Started
  4. SWOT Report
    1. 4.1. Formatting
    2. 4.2. Examples to Imitate
    3. 4.3. Getting Started
  5. Teamwork Evaluation
    1. 5.1. Formatting
    2. 5.2. Examples to Imitate
  6. Peer Review
  7. Review
  • Consider your audience and the particular genres of each Deliverable. Remember, I am not your only audience. The Research Proposal and SWOT Report should ideally be targeted at the organization you are evaluating. How would you present yourself to that client?
  • Working as a team does not mean working individually and combining your work. It means collaborating on each and every part of the assignment. Meet often, even if only virtually. Ask questions. Review each other’s work and, ideally, do some of the work in the same space so you can write together in real time.
  • Be critical but constructive. If you notice a problem, either with your team or with the organization, develop a clear solution that you or the organization can implement. Remember, business writing is about problem solving.

Grading

You will be graded on

  • Time and effort spent with a pen in hand or at your keyboard writing, revising, and polishing
  • Attention to genre and audience
  • Thoughtful collaboration with your group
  • Participation in the entire writing process, from brainstorming and early drafts to a final polished submission with responses to all peer and instructor comments
  • The final product. Ultimately, your whole group is responsible, so make sure all work is turned in together and on time.

You will not be graded on

  • Exacting replication of form. Be creative and take risks! You might find a way of communicating with others, or of thinking about yourself, that invites productive professional relationships and helps you think about your relationship to your profession.
  • Perfect grammar and spelling. While I do expect you to proofread, we are all still learning, and you may still make some mistakes. Do your best and ask questions.
  • Your group members’ work ethic. While the project will be graded as a whole, individual grades will reflect any decisions not to contribute.
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