40% of your final grade will be based on this individual assignment. In writing your process paper, you need to think carefully about what is happening/what happened in your group, and why. You are required to follow the outline below as you organize and present your analysis. This paper should total between 12 and 15 pages.

Useful tips: (1) Keep a diary/take notes on what goes on in your group on a regular basis. (2) Do not postpone this assignment to the last hour. (3) Answer all of the questions listed below. (4) Support your analysis with theory/concepts covered in the class wherever possible - be extensive in your application of theory and offer plenty of examples where relevant.

1. Papers must be typed (double-spacing) and follow a standard format (e.g., APA, MLA).

2. Paper grades will be lowered by one level (1/3 of a full letter grade) for every day late.

1. Introduction: What is the purpose of this paper?

2. Group Development

• Describe your group members? How diverse was your group? What challenges and opportunities did the composition of the group afford you during the quarter?
• How attractive was the group to the members in the beginning? What was this attraction based upon? Is the group presently attractive to you?
• What group standards and norms developed? What effects did they have on the group?
• What kind of status structure developed?
• What kind of role structure developed?
• What interaction pattern(s)/networks typified group activity?
• What developmental stages did the group experience?

• How did the group go about making decisions? What decision-making helps and hindrances did the group encounter?
• Describe/analyze the leadership structure of the group. What bases of power characterized the group's leadership?
• How did the group experience conflict? Why?

• Did the group make effective use of its resources? Why? Was the group a "hot group?" Why? What might have helped the group become more productive?
• Were the relationship needs handled effectively? Was the group more than a task group?
• What did you do/not do that you would have/would not have done in other groups?

• What was the purpose of this paper? Was this effectively accomplished?
• What, in this experience, was most meaningful in providing you with a greater understanding of small group life?

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1. Introduction (5 points)
 

2. Group Development (30 points)

    A. Member/Group Attractiveness & Diversity

    B. Standards & norms/effects

    C. Status Structure

    D. Role Structure

    E. Interaction/network patterns

    F. Developmental stages
 

3. Group Process (30 points)

    A. Decision-making (10 points)

    B. Leadership structure

    C. Leader bases of power

    D. Conflict (10 points)
 

4. Group Outcome (15 points)

    A. Resource use, hot group?, solutions for productivity

    B. Relationship needs, more than a task-oriented group?

    C. Do differently?
 

5. Conclusion (10 points)

    A. Purpose

    B. Meaningful?
 

6. Mechanics (10 points)
 

Total Points (100 points)