For context, I was assigned with 2 other boys in order to work on a collaborative persuasive essay. This is an honors class mind you.
We were supposed to be working together, planning our essay, and in the end have the same exact final typed essay. At first, things were going well. We exchanged ideas, planned accordingly, things seemed great. However, it started to go a little downhill once we began our rough draft. We kind of parted ways from there, occasionally sharing more ideas so we could focus on writing our rough draft, as we already had a plan. I worked on it till the end of the period, however 1 of the boys seemed to be done, while the other one was distracted. I didn’t pay much mind at first untill the next time I saw them. When I saw them again I had finished most of the rough draft at home and simply needed a couple finishing touches. After adding the finishing touches 2 of us were ready to type the final draft, while the distracted boy had to catch up. While the distracted boy was catching up, I asked the one who finished if I could read his rough draft, and handed him mine. To my surprise, he only had one page, meanwhile I had about 4. It was not ideal to say the least. He seemed to believe a body paragraph was a introduction, cite evidence, introduce another idea, conclusion repeat. The introduction, and conclusion we had shared were the same across both papers, so that was fine, but the issue was the body paragraph. When the distraced boy finished the rough draft and we could finally start the final draft things got even worse. We had shared the document, and oh goodness it was terrible. There was not that much proper grammer, and the introduction I had written had somehow been altered to sound worse, weaker, and more confusing. I didn’t say anything, and instead just did the whole thing myself, as I knew it would be difficult to get them to write a high quality essay within the span of 18 hours.
So WIBTA if I had told them their writing wasnt ideal, and AITA for doing the entire essay?
You say honors class so I am assuming high school? This seems like a really strange assignment for a teacher to give out. I would address your concerns to your teacher. It sounds like your partners are not putting in enough (or at least the not the right kind of) work and it is unfair for your grade to suffer. At the same time, it is not your responsibility to pick up the slack. I wouldn’t tell your partners their work sucks but I would try to offer constructive criticism. NTA
Maybe the teacher put you together because they knew you were the better writer, but I don’t think you should have done the whole paper. I’m hoping your teacher didn’t want you to do it all. I’m glad you didn’t say their writing sucks to their face. lol
It’s not fair for one to do all work and rest to benefit. In the future make sure you set expectations from the start and do a check in ahead of deadline
Good writers also use paragraphs