Ironically, although nearly all technical organizations have some assignment-of-invention form for you to sign when you join, many do not follow up with training about how to generate, codify, and protect IP you create for them.
When I was a reporter for the Village Voice, I had some assignment that took me to England, and I got to Stratford on Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace, at just the moment, a great moment in the history of Shakespearean production, when the director Peter Brook was putting on his production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
Both as a therapist and as a coach, I've had some assignments that were short and highly focused and others that lasted for years.
Contingency recruiters can have some good assignments, so you can't just forget that approach.
The solution is to have some kind of assignment, such as a short essay or reading quiz, that forces students to do the reading.
This fluency illusion is so strong that, once we feel we have some topic or assignment down, we assume that further study won't strengthen our memory of the material.
We had some missed assignments and he took advantage of that".
I had some great assignments, including serving as brand manager for Tide detergent.
At that point, even Al Smith, sent down from Heaven on special assignment, might have some difficulty finagling his way out of the budget jam.
Sections will start week 2. For your "zeroth" assignment, we have some todos to get you started during your first week in CS 106X.
Certainly, random assignment would have some downsides — committees would lose some expertise along with their "special interest" members, for example.
