May Issue


Vol 25|No 5|May 2016

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Bigger is not better!

Sometimes teachers and students confuse length with quality. A big pile of information and a long report do not necessarily indicate that anything worthwhile is expressed in those pages. A big landfill is still a landfill.

In this article drawn from his new book, The Great Report, Jamie suggests we judge the "degree of difficulty" of the question being explored, just as we do with dives.

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