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COMN 1200 Small Group Experience & Outlook Essay (100 points)

Objectives:

· Reflect on your past experiences with small groups.

· Situate your experiences as a student in a small group communication class.

· Identify your value in small group settings.

· Explore what you hope to learn and what you expect out of yourself in small groups.

Description of Assignment

For this short reflective assignment/paper, you will reflect on your own small group experiences and outlooks. This paper is intended to help you, and me, better understand what your past experiences are in relation to working in small groups. This assignment/paper is also intended to help you better grasp onto what you would like to get out of the class and identify where you are at in terms of knowledge about small group communication. Finally, this assignment serves to help you express how your identity and experiences may be valuable and enriching to a small group environment. There is a place for everyone in a team and everyone is a valuable aspect of a group.

Assignment Directions & Outline

This assignment should be double spaced and in times new roman font. APA formatting should be utilized. This means including a title page. See the syllabus for APA resources. Please do not use sources. This assignment is for reflective purposes only. You will need to address the following prompts:

1) (1 page): A brief introduction and reflection of your past experiences in groups.

(25 points)

2) (1 page): A discussion surrounding what your assumptions are about working in small groups.

(25 points)

3) (1 page): A discussion surrounding how your identity would be valuable to a group. What makes you standout? What makes you who you are? How would these aspects of the self play out in a group setting? Be descriptive here.

(25 points)

4) (1/2-1 page): A brief conclusion on what you hope to learn from this class.

(25 points)

*The page requirements are enforced when I am grading. Points will be lost for incorrect APA* formatting & if you do not meet the page requirements. This is meant to teach you how to be concise in your writing. APA is also valuable in many disciplines, especially communication

studies. Have fun! I am excited to hear about your experiences and how you will make a wonderful group/team member.

Small group communication

A brief introduction and reflection of your past experiences in groups.

My past experiences of working in small groups has been very challenging whether its working for a school project or for other social events that I have hosted in a collaboration with other student clubs outside of the school.

• Communication among the group is one of the key concepts of successful group work, unfortunately it is one of the hardest things to achieve one of the team members always tend to be disengaged.

• Dividing tasks

• Language barriers

Working with international students, most times when working in a group with one or more international students the rest of the group tend to give international students the least amount of work stems from this notion of power dynamics tying their ability to speak english to their performance.

• Taking control claiming the work

• Valuing opinions

A discussion surrounding how your identity would be valuable to a group. What makes you standout? What makes you who you are? How would these aspects of the self play out in a group setting? Be descriptive here.

• leading

• Brainstorming

• Flexible

• Meeting times

• New ideas