The idea is that students can gain proficiency even when completing different types of assignments or a different number of assignments (one big project vs. five smaller assignments).
However, we are still making changes such as: the order of some of the classes, what is on and off the required reading list, and the details on the grading system (such as number of smaller assignments, allocation of points, and so on).
4. If you have only one large paper due near the end of the course, you might create a sequence of smaller assignments leading up to and providing a foundation for that larger paper (e.g., proposal of the topic, an annotated bibliography, a progress report, a summary of the paper's key argument, a first draft of the paper itself).
A series of smaller assignments followed, including Hawkworld, the British version of Transformers, and some freelance work for Dungeons & Dragons, until he landed the gig that would put him on the comics map: Detective Comics.
Even if you plan to use the contractor for a major project, pick a small assignment as a test run — preferably one with little financial or operational risk.
Firms will learn to rely on a new breed of intermediaries from small assignment brokers like Amazon's Mechanical Turk to complex problem posers like InnoCentive.
According to Bill Bain, his firm will take on a small assignment when the project has the wholehearted backing of the chief executive and the effort can produce spectacular results.
I gave him a small assignment to assess his competence, his intelligence.
…Playdom recruiter Jennifer Farris emailed Defendant Martha Sapeta, a then-current Zynga employee who owed her undivided loyalty and best efforts to Zynga, with a "small assignment" as part of an upcoming and lengthy recruiting and interview meeting.
You can simply give someone a small assignment, or two or three, without interviewing them at all.
This small assignment error remained undetected as no hole occurred in the assignment list.
