SPEAKER: The videos that accompany Team Writing were collected as part of a two-year study of student teams in technical and professional writing and engineering classes. In this project the complete interactions of nine student teams were videotaped. The vignettes you see here reenact these real student collaborations.

Each video begins with a short description of the team and project. This introduction is followed by reenactment modeled upon the original group's conversation. While in some cases the original interaction was modified slightly to remove distractions or clarify details, we worked hard to remain faithful to the look and feel of the original group's exact words and behaviors.

In addition, these videos were played for experienced managers and the original students themselves, who commented on what they saw. Their comments supplement these videos.