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I have a lazy group in my English class (they haven't contributed at all) and I want them to fail the course - prof said to let her know if you have freeloaders in your group.
The full story:
My technical writing class is basically one big group assignment. It was divided into three parts: 1. Proposal (5 pages), 2. Interim Report (2 pages), 3. FinalPaper (25 pages).
Assignment 1
We didn't divide the work quick enough and I got the professor to give us 10 bonus points to whoever turned it in a week early. To meet that deadline, Idid the entire thing myself. No big deal - I always do well on writing assignments and five pages went by pretty quickly while I watched the news.
Assignment 2
We divided it into three parts (three group members). I ended up having to do the entire thing. They added their parts... which were one sentence each - whichwere the only grammatical and spelling errors in the entire thing. Whatever, it was a short assignment.
FINAL ASSIGNMENT
We divided a 12 page section (only half of the paper) into three parts and said to send it to one another by LAST Sunday. I sent my four pages out Saturdayafternoon, the other guy sent me his 1.5 pages Sunday at midnight and the entire thing is one big error and says nothing. It was the most pathetic thing anEnglish speaking student could possibly write for an assignment in an English course. The third group member hasn't tried to make contact at all - even tothis day!
HERE'S WHERE I NEED OPINIONS
My plan is to do the entire 25 page paper and also print out a separate copy of that one "contribution" to show what douche bag 1 did (and howterrible it was), and then include a note explaining how this was the only contribution any one of them made all semester and the others contributions, ifthere were any, would have been in here, too. The prof. said to not let people ride coat tails like this, and to tell her about it.Personally, I would not have minded if they had not lied and said they were going to do something. I'm used to doing all the work, but IHATE people who can't keep their word. So, I want to screw them over and see them fail the course.
Any other ideas or opinions on how I'm handling the situation?
I have a lazy group in my English class (they haven't contributed at all) and I want them to fail the course - prof said to let her know if you have freeloaders in your group.
The full story:
My technical writing class is basically one big group assignment. It was divided into three parts: 1. Proposal (5 pages), 2. Interim Report (2 pages), 3. FinalPaper (25 pages).
Assignment 1
We didn't divide the work quick enough and I got the professor to give us 10 bonus points to whoever turned it in a week early. To meet that deadline, Idid the entire thing myself. No big deal - I always do well on writing assignments and five pages went by pretty quickly while I watched the news.
Assignment 2
We divided it into three parts (three group members). I ended up having to do the entire thing. They added their parts... which were one sentence each - whichwere the only grammatical and spelling errors in the entire thing. Whatever, it was a short assignment.
FINAL ASSIGNMENT
We divided a 12 page section (only half of the paper) into three parts and said to send it to one another by LAST Sunday. I sent my four pages out Saturdayafternoon, the other guy sent me his 1.5 pages Sunday at midnight and the entire thing is one big error and says nothing. It was the most pathetic thing anEnglish speaking student could possibly write for an assignment in an English course. The third group member hasn't tried to make contact at all - even tothis day!
HERE'S WHERE I NEED OPINIONS
My plan is to do the entire 25 page paper and also print out a separate copy of that one "contribution" to show what douche bag 1 did (and howterrible it was), and then include a note explaining how this was the only contribution any one of them made all semester and the others contributions, ifthere were any, would have been in here, too. The prof. said to not let people ride coat tails like this, and to tell her about it.Personally, I would not have minded if they had not lied and said they were going to do something. I'm used to doing all the work, but IHATE people who can't keep their word. So, I want to screw them over and see them fail the course.
Any other ideas or opinions on how I'm handling the situation?