Your task is to create a document that argues for a higher grade for you and your hardworking teammates and a lower grade for your slacker team member. You’ll need to draw on the background texts you have — the course policy on teamwork and a handful of representative communications within the team — to make that argument. Don’t just throw all of the background texts into a single file and give them to your professor. Instead, draw on those documents to persuade your professor.

Note that the document you’re developing is primarily an “assemblage” of other documents (see Background Texts section for a collection of online communications among team members) to which you’ll provide framing material. You’ll need to examine your purposes, context, and audience, and then determine what portion of the documents below (and in what order) will best make your case. You’ll then have to decide how to “frame” them, keeping in mind that, like most people, your professor is a busy person and doesn’t want to know every detail — just enough to make a decision.

Spend time working in the Audience and Purpose sections of your PACT diagrams because they’re the most complicated areas of this scenario. Keep in mind that simply asking for a better grade may not be your best strategy — there may be other ways for this to play out that will resolve the issue.