Working on collaborative projects has become common in many writing and writing-intensive courses. In engineering courses, for example, teams of students often carry out a complex project and produce presentations and written reports. Web design courses frequently involve students in team projects. Similarly, first-year writing courses often include a collaborative writing project. Typically, these projects are far more ambitious than those assigned to individual students. It is only through the contributions of all the members of the group that they can be completed at all.