Lazy group member - let him burn?

harvestmoon
Thu, 05 Dec 2013 18:42:21 +0000

Thanks for the additional, excellent advice!! Throughout all of this, I think I learned a lot more than just information about my research topic.

I will definitely take heed of proper documentation. I did this to an extent for this instance (I screen-shotted the agendas and article links I put on the Google Docs and saved the emails I sent to the group member, and then told my prof about them in our peer review), but if I ever come across this situation again, I like the real-time tactic.

As it turned out, excluding group member #4 and his parts, we had a good presentation. For his 3 slides composed of only quotes, he spluttered through an explanation and I actually had to cut him off a bit because we were running out of time. But all in all, our prof said we hit the major themes he wanted us to hit (he assigned our topic) and that we were thorough.

Hopefully this will be my last group project for a while!! It’s draining.