Essay On Group Assignment

Introduction
The following is a report on the procedure and method of conducting a group assignment. The purpose of this report is to give a firsthand experience on the goals achieved in producing a summary report within a group. The topic chosen by the group is entitled "Language and Meaning" (Appendix A).
This report will examine how group is being structured, on communication barriers among group members and the use of technology tools to conduct group assignment. The information of this report is based on firsthand experience and theories being applied to support the arguments.

Group Structure
This assignment starts off with the forming of an informal group of five students selected from two tutorial groups namely Tony Stevens and David Chin. The students begin by introducing themselves and then briefly discuss on the topic handed out. This group possesses a common interest in writing a particular topic for the summary report. According to research, informal groups are formed spontaneously and voluntarily by people to meet a common interest (Archee, Gurney and Mohan 2013).The selection of this group was done under the characteristic of an identical and agreed goal being achieved. As pointed out (Lumsden & Lumsden 2004) a group formed when the following characteristics are present - an agreed and an identical goal, responsibility and shared leadership with the mutual support between members.

Communication Pattern
When the group was first formed, not every member of the team were collaborating and certain conflict were raised. Discussions were held to diminish the conflict and effective interpersonal communication were used to increase the moral and better understanding on how to work as a group. The results appear to d...

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...eoconferencing, weak coverage will affect the communication between members. Members tend to repeat the conversation over and over again which is frustrated and annoying. The other issue was members being left out from the discussion if not present in Skype during the conversation. Therefore, members agree to switch to another alternative electronic tools which is Dropbox. The context of Dropbox is very similar to any other electronic mail such as Gmail or Yahoo mail. Whereas Dropbox have larger storage to store large size file of documents. Whenever a document has been received, there is a 'bing' sound to notified the receiver a file has been received and unread. This Dropbox application can be install either in laptop or mobile phone which is convenient for member to receive the file through mobile phone even when not attended in front of a computer or laptop.