effort vs credit (aka Well done! *pat on the back*)

well yes i downloaded a whole bunch of sneaky stuff of questionable origins on limewire and installed Mac OS X on my weeny XP. hey they're all X's anyway. and i managed to get its networking feature enabled finally! (well yes i know i'm supposed to be working on the homework assignments we've been given...)

so i woke at 9 in the morning (strangely early for a monday) and made myself a cappucino. and i didn't feel sleepy the whole day after that. which was amazing... i should do it more often. and i headed to school for lessons.

there was a meeting with the project "client" in the afternoon at some obscure meeting room at the back corner of some building. which was peaceful enough, if not for the copier/printer machine in next door. and we had our meeting rather... awkwardly. don't know why but it sure felt awkward. and this one group member of ours... don't suppose i can get any suggestions to handle him here but this is the situation:

he did a "technical manual" 2weeks after getting into forming the group. he did this all on his own. impressive? he said he had been working on it for the past months. gee, you mean i wasn't even in australia and you started on that already? wow. he sent the email out to the group and we opened it to take a look. oh wow. reminds us of notes for a particular subject! amazing. but unfortunately these are 80% irrelevant. only a small portion is actually useful under the context of a "Technical Manual". jason and i agreed on that point for sure.

so the problem is, he wanted to claim credit for that piece of work (in fear of us not acknowledging his efforts) which in our belief is... wrong. the quality of that piece of effort does not seem to be worth the attention. how do we tell him nicely that the work he had done was unfortunately wasted because it is irrelevant, and that he need not bother claiming credit for his work because it don't seem to be of acceptable quality?

ho hum... please let me know if you have any suggestions. he's already miffed about today... and other factors include him... staying in sydney hence travels for long distances to campus almost daily. he is in his early thirties. he is the only other "chinese"(one thai, another czech) from hongkong. his english isn't that good.