Writing Integrated, can someone help me correct my answer please....thanks!

[Darylm]

Writing Integrated

In many organizations, perhaps the best way to approach a certain projects is to assemble a group of people into a team. Having a team of people attack a project offers several advantages. First of all, a group of people has a wider range of knowledge, expertise, and skills than any single individual is likely to possess, a group can work more quickly in response to the task assigned to it and can come up with highly creative solutions to problems and issues. Sometimes these creative solutions comes in group is more likely to make risk decisions that an individual might not undertake. This is because the group spreads responsibility for a decision to all the members and thus no single individual can be held accountable if the decision turns out to be wrong.

Taking part in a group process can be very rewarding for members of the team. Team members who have a voice in making a decision will no doubt feel better about carrying out the work that is entailed by that decision than they might doing work that is imposed on them by others. Also, the individual team member has a much better chance to “shine”, to get his or her contributions and ideas not only recognized but recognized as highly significant, because a team’s overall results can be more far reaching and have greater impact that what might have otherwise been possible for the person to accomplish or contribute working alone.

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Now I want to tell you about what one company found when it decided that it would turn over some of its new projects to teams of people, and make them the team responsible for planning the projects and getting the work done. After about six months, the company took a look at how well the team performed.

On virtually every team, some members got almost a “free ride”… they didn’t contribute much at all, but if their team did a good job, they nevertheless benefited from the recognition the team got. And what about group members who worked especially well and who provided a lot of insight on problems and issues? Well... the recognition for a job well done went to the group as a whole, no names were named. So it won't surprise you to learn that when the real contributors were asked how they felt about the group process, their attitude was just the opposite of what the reading predicts.

Another finding was that some projects just didn't move very quickly. Why? Because it took so long to reach consensus; it took many, many meetings to build the agreement among group members about how they would move the project along. On the other hand, there were other instances where one or two people managed to become very influential over what their group did. Sometimes when those influences said "That will never work" about an idea the group was developing, the idea was quickly dropped instead of being further discussed. And then there was another occasion when a couple influencers convinced the group that a plan of theirs was "highly creative". And even though some members tried to warn the rest of the group that the project was moving in directions that might not work, they were basically ignored by other group members. Can you guess the ending to "this" story? When the project failed, the blame was place on all the members of the group.
Question:

Summarize the points made in the lecture you just read, explaining how they cast doubt on points made in the reading.

The reading states that there are several advantages when a team works on a project. However, the professor refutes this statement by giving few scenarios.
Initially, the reading mentioned that the responsibility spreads evenly amongst the member even though the solution comes from an individual. The professor posits this by stating that other member basically gets a free ride. That is benefiting from the project even though they don’t have any contribution.
Another thing, according to the reading passage number heads is better than one and thus accomplishes the task and solves a problem a lot easier due to the contributions of skills and knowledge of each individual. The lecturer contradicted this by stating that it would take a lot of discussions and considerations before a plan be implemented for the project to move forward.
Finally, the passage mentioned that team members who have a voice in making a decision will no doubt feel better about carrying out the work and will have a better chance to emerge from the group. Nonetheless, the professor cast doubt on the reading and stated that some of the members will become very influential and this will have a great impact on the outcome of the project. Particularly when the plan fails then all group members will likely take the fall.


TOEFL listening discussions: A conversation between a professor and her student

[Luschen]

Hi, great writing. I could find only a few minor grammatical errors and one important point which I thought you passed over.