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This essay, "Leadership Roles in a Small Group Project," was written by Merlla McLaughlin for a communications class and is a prime example of effective writing in the social sciences. Merlla and a group of her peers had completed a substantial collaborative project on parking problems on campus. The group presented their research findings in class and then carried out one more assignment: to write individual reports, describing what they had learned about small-group dynamics as a result of their project. Although the essay below is not a formal social-science research report, it does conform to the APA style of documentation.

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