The phrase "a different type of task" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a task that varies in nature or category from others previously mentioned or considered.
Example: "This project requires a different type of task than what we usually handle, focusing more on creative problem-solving."
Alternatives: "another kind of task" or "a distinct kind of task".
One limitation of such studies has been the need to compare results across different subject groups, each performing a different type of language task.
Also included in the Appendix are the top response percentages for the English symbol group, although this was a different type of categorization task for that group.
When you are with people with whom you have to do a task, there is a different type of relationship between you and them.
This difference can be due to the different type of tasks, as data are available suggesting that different excitatory/inhibitory inputs to the motor neurons play a part in the position tasks and the force tasks (Rudroff et al. 2005).
However, existing evidence from typically developing 8-year-olds has shown increases in gaze aversion during phases of thinking for a range of different types of task; including episodic and autobiographical memory (Doherty-Sneddon & Phelps, 2005).
Two experiments are reported with the aim of determining the effect of pen shape and size on two different types of task: drawing and writing.
We identify three qualitatively different types of Tasks; (a) those whose added utility is proportional to the size of the Task, (b) those whose added utility is proportional to the progress of the Task and (c) those whose added utility is reversely proportional to the progress of the Task.
We test our system on three different types of tasks: tightening nuts on a wheel of a car, assembling a toy spaceship with LEGO blocks, and assembling a laptop computer with its parts.
Lucia Deng, a mid-career lawyer who has recently been on the job market, told me, "When I was interviewing at a startup, I saw that their lawyers worked in an entirely open space and on communal tables and the thought of that gave me agita!" Steelcase provides a framework for how to think about the different types of tasks people typically do at work.
