Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Day 33 - Contrast

Ben worked on two projects today that were an interesting contrast. First he worked on the draft of a prompt related to the book that we just finished reading. This work is being edited by someone else and I have taken myself completely out of the loop. I did not review the first draft, the comments he received, or the second draft he made based on the comments.

In the second project we were gathering and graphing some weather data. We did this together. We spent considerable time on presentation, including graphing. Left to my own devices, it is the type of thing that I could spent a lot of time fine tuning.

My guess is that with the first project he did not take sufficient time processing the comments, and in the second the level of detail was beyond his interest or need.

The ultimate question is will his next writing or data analysis project be most influenced by the work on these tasks. I honestly do not know, but will be sure to find out.

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