Nt1310 Unit 1 Assignment

Back in the 2013 Spring Semester, I was in a team of four students in English 302 class. The assignment was a semester long, where the teams were to create a fictional company and sell the idea to the Professor and classmates. The professor wanted the students to utilize each and everyone’s majors to come up with the final product just like how many businesses and corporations actually do. When we first had our initial meeting, everyone introduced themselves and their majors, then shared contact numbers and email addresses. With that, we divided the works that were necessary to complete the project.
Being an IT major with many background histories of using Photoshop and Illustrator, I was responsible for creating our business websites, logos, designing a company building, pamphlets for final presentation, and business cards. Second team mate was an Accounting major, so she was responsible for doing research on finding out the costs of buying a land to build our company and costs of building materials. Then, third team mate was a

Though, in a different team that I worked with, when we had a freeloader, we would give a particular person a chance to catch up, however after a certain point, we had to talk to the professor and let them know. Then, we just carried on with our projects as if we were one person short. Lejk (1996) actually had an example similar to my approach from his book. Where the group will approach the tutor of freeloader where then, that person will be given a yellow card. Then the individual will agree to improve the performance by an agreed time. Even then, when the individual fails to improve, the individual will receive 20% reduction from the group grade. If there are no improvements, then a red card is awarded. Which leads individual to the dismissal from the team, and any work that freeloader was responsible for is removed from group’s workload. (Lejk,