Week 8 Blog #1

In the past I have written many collaborative essays. All of them were very different in the division of the workload and the arguments among the group members. In my first experience with collaborative writing, it was with some friends in high school. We got to pick our groups so we ended up pairing up because we thought it would be fun. It all started to go downhill from there when we couldn’t agree on a topic. We all wanted to do a different topic and no one would give in. Once we all finally agreed then there came the problem as to where to do the work and what day. No one was willing to give up one of their beloved weekends to work on this paper together. It was very frustrating because we needed to get this paper done and no one was willing to make the sacrifice that was needed to get the paper done. After this experience I have learned to dread group papers because I don’t know how it will work out and I don’t like arguing over schoolwork.