My problem is that I checked the slides today, and noticed that one of my groupmates wrote very ambiguous and vague statements w/out elaborating on their parts.
For example, somethings they wrote were:
“they are working on their economy”
“they have several different ethnicities”
“the government is important”
And as I said, they didn’t elaborate on these statements. Most of the sentences are very vague and could be applied to most countries
Another problem is that some things they wrote were definitely not true.
I’m bothered b/c this is a GROUP grade, i.e. we’ll all get the same grade - if one person messes up, then all of our grades will be reduced. My teacher is extremely strict on grading, so I don’t want to take any chances.
I thought that I may just go ahead and fix / edit their slides, but this could cause problems.
Yes yes yes, do it. I had to compile my ten-person group’s research into a booklet recently and I just edited it without even saying anything. Some of it was badddd.
But maybe be like, “Hey I found some relevant facts that apply to your section, can I add them?”
Ahh… If I had a nickel for every time I’ve been forced to do all the work in a group project… I’d probably only have enough money to buy a candy bar, but you get my point.
You can either just fix the work on the project yourself (meaning that you wouldn’t have to rely on other people) or you can get on your group mates backs about doing the actual work for the project (you might have to spell out what they need to do 'cause some people can’t be responsible for their own work.
You could also talk to the teacher about the issue, but I don’t know how that would go over.
There’s no reason not to. Look at it this way, you’d be helping them out, too, if you edit it, because it’ll help improve their grade (and yours and the other people in your group). I don’t really think they would get mad…that would be something that’s pretty silly to get mad over since you’re the one doing more work in exchange for getting them a higher grade.
You can edit the slides. (Ideally, you should add new information rather than completely deleting what they wrote. In my experience, people are okay with having their work edited as long as you don’t completely trash it. They want to feel like their contributions were valid and helpful.)
@bodangles That’s a good idea! I think I’ll just say that to her - normally, I wouldn’t say anything, but it may cause problems on presentation day. I’d have to say something to her eventually.
@IAmNotCreativ Haha, I totally know what you mean. Yeah, my problem is only with this one person, my other two groupmates are completing their slides in great detail whereas her slide sticks out like a sore thumb I was afraid of offending her / causing confusion, but I’d be okay with fixing the slides - I think if she doesn’t actually fix them by tomorrow, I’ll just edit them myself.
@CE527M Ah, that’s a good point! Thanks for the reassurance, I hope she won’t get mad or offended or anything like that.
@halcyonheather Yeah, I’m not going to delete what she wrote completely - but the sentences are WAY too vague / general for them to stay as they are right now. I would just add more detail to them.
Yes edit it. Changing opaque statements into something that is direct and true could change your project grade significantly depending upon the teacher. I think they’ll understand where he messed up but if they’re really offended, say they can edit your parts of the project if you’re alright with that.
Turns out that she wasn’t done with the slides - she emailed me an hour ago and told me that she just wrote stuff as a way of “claiming the slides”. She fixed her part and it’s much better now
