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Glossary

reflective If you are reflective, you are thinking deeply about something.

enable If someone or something enables you to do a particular thing, they give you the opportunity to do it.

University lecturers also ask you to work with others because of the skills and subject knowledge you gain during the group work process. This means that the lecturers are not only interested in the finished assignment that you hand in, they are also interested in what happened when you were working on the assignment; they will give you marks for this process of working as well as marking your final assignment. This is why the process is important, not just the product. If the product is good but only one person worked on the assignment, you will score poorly on the collaborative working part of the assignment.

In long assignments there are usually several parts, for example, a group presentation as well as individual writing. It is common to include a reflective piece of writing in which you show what you have learned from your group work. This enables you to make comments about how you worked as a group and how you solved any problems that came up.