acknowledge your and others’ range of linguistic differences as resources, and draw on those resources to develop rhetorical sensibility

As engineers, teamwork will be present most of our professional life. In college, we obtain a taste of it with group projects and activities. In Writing for Engineering teamwork was always present. Working in groups forced us to collaborate with one another and discover what each of our peers could contribute to each project. We were able to acquire and evaluate the knowledge and abilities that each of our peers have by interacting with them. The lab report, group proposal project, and job posting assignment all required such contacts. We had to discuss with each other and come to an agreement as a group on whatever topic to focus on even before we started writing the lab reports. We had to communicate effectively as a group and present our knowledge on things we knew that could work or help us report in order to do this and continue creating the lab reports. We also had to agree on the direction of our report components and help others comprehend or create the report if they had any questions or concerns.