R2: Collaborative writing, due Sunday, March 1st: Take a few minutes to sit quietly and brainstorm about the most essential keys to working in collaboration with others, especially on projects involving writing. Jot down ideas in single words or brief phrases until you have at least seven distinct ideas to elaborate. Then decide which are the five most truly essential keys to successful collaborative work and explain them in separate paragraphs (the whole should be at least a page and a half double-spaced or a full page single-spaced).

For each of your five essentials, explain why it's so vitally important—not for the team-members working on the project, but to the final product the project delivers. Also consider likely consequences if any of these keys is not scrupulously followed. Finally, in a few sentences, share ideas on how team leaders and other team members can respond effectively and professionally when someone in the group is not pulling his or her weight. Where you can, rely on your own experiences in collaborative work, in each case noting whether they occurred in the workplace or in college.

Proof your reflection before submitting it in the "Reflection 2" D2L dropbox.

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R1: Initial reflection, due Monday, January 19th: Think back over the Professional Writing (PFWR) courses you have taken leading up to this 4660 class, the culmination of MGA's Professional Writing program (the concentration in the English B.A. or the Minor complementing another Bachelor's degree). In separate paragraphs, reflect upon

a) three or four important facets or aspects of professional (workplace) writing you have mastered thus far in the program—or if "mastery" isn't entirely accurate, that you have come to consider essential to professional writing as distinctly different from typical academic writing you might encounter in an English or History course, for example;

b) aspects of professional or workplace writing that you have come to understand or appreciate but feel less confident about having "mastered." Put another way, what different facets of "professional writing" do you most want to improve upon in this crowning course of the program? You might review syllabi or textbooks or specific assignments from previous PFWR classes at MGA or elsewhere to jog your memory in pondering item a) or b) for this assignment.

Proof your reflection at least once before submitting it in the "Reflection 1" D2L dropbox.