Journal # 15

To overcome a challenge with working with someone from a different area you need to be on the same page. You need to be sure you and the other person knows exactly what is going on and what your intentions are when you are working. You would have to talk back and forth and ask questions to make it clear on what you are trying to achieve. I think the first thing you should do is just talk to your partner and see what they are like. You should find out what their strengths and weaknesses are. That way you will know how to divide up the duties. You would have to give each person a task that you know they will do a good job at. You should break up the amount of work evenly so one person doesn't end up with to much of the work or one person just slides by without doing anything. When dividing up the work it would be important to keep in mind what people's strong points are. If they are good at picking thinks out of context then they should do that, if they are good writers they should put together the final paper. The research could be split among everyone and have everyone get a certain number of sources about general ideas based on your topic. I think is important in our situation dealing with the people from Farmington. I think first it will be really important to get to know your partners and find out what kind of workers they are. You'll know from the start if they are hard workers then the project will go through very easily. But, if they are not concerned with their grade then you know immediately you will be the one doing most of the work. Maybe if you find out soon enough you could get a chance to fix that problem.