SARA KAY BROWN'S QUESTION

How often do you collaborate with others when working? Are you more comfortable working by yourself on assignments or with others?

For the most part, a lot of my classes do not involve group work. The grades in the class mainly consist of papers, quizzes, and tests which are all to be done independently. However, in this class and also in high school I had a lot of group assignments. Having worked on both types of assignments, I personally prefer to work by myself. I think that sometimes in group work, there is one person who takes control and others who rely on that person in order to get a good grade. I think that it is too easy for people to slack when there are others in the group who know that the project has to get done, even if that means that they have to do it themselves. I also think that sometimes people conform to the other people in their group's ideas. However, if they were forced to do individual work they would also be forced to come up with their own opinions and ways to go about an assignment. While I personally prefer to work on something by myself, there are definitely benefits to having a partner/partners. For example, I worked with Sara on the last audio project and I had so much fun doing so. I think that the collaboration of our ideas and being able to work with a friend made the project much more enjoyable and a better finished product. I think that group work is beneficial to a student's learning, but it must be applied to appropriate projects where no one person will be taken advantage of, but ideas from different backgrounds and interests are needed.

I found the intertext about Nancy Mitford very intriguing. I don't think that her husband should have been left out of the title if he co-authored the book. Regardless of sales, he was a major contributor to the book and should be recognized for it. I personally have never not bought a book because it had more than one author.