In the article “Why Collaborate” written by Ellen Lupton, she describes why she believes that collaboration will have a good effect on everyday lives but before coming to that conclusion her idea of collaborating was that, talking would be a good thing as long as she gets to work by herself at the end. Ellen discusses the many different ideas for why being able to work with people more allows for a better function such as making connections and get a better understanding. One part that stood out to me was “the project worked because the students had a degree of individual ownership”. Many times the reason why group projects do not work is because one party puts in more work than others and then it gets lost due to it being a group project so everyone is getting credit that wasn’t deserving. Although she used this article to refer mainly to school settings to get people to picture the idea of group projects, this could be used in everyday life. There are many people who prefer to work alone but working alone can only get you so far and doesn’t always reach the highest potential. The tone to this article is self reflecting, because she realized how there is something that she needs to work on such as getting more comfortable with working with people. The article was written to show to people that although there are people who agree with not collaborating with others, it is something that will benefit you in the long run by connecting with others.