Q1. Suppose you are on a project team. One of the team members is very abrasive - using foul language and having a negative attitude - and is highly critical of the work of all the other team members, including you. This person also has an A (3.95) grade point average and wants to do the whole project alone and is willing to turn it in to the professor and share the credit with the whole team. The team is divided about how to respond to this offer, because this team member could possibly achieve a better grade on the project than the team. How should the team deal with this individual?

Q2. What communication barriers could distort the communication between you and your professor? What are some approaches you could use to overcome these communication barriers?

Q3. Is email superior to older forms of electronic communications such as the telephone and voice mail? What are the disadvantages of email? How can we manage a large volume of email messages so that we are not spending too much time responding to messages each day?