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Figure 8.18: Cumulative student hours for ENG302more comfortable with the three Rs – she spend the least time of the group on the projectitself, but often acted as scribe and researcher for the group. Of course, what this chart doesnot indicate is the effectiveness of the time spent.A summary of a weekly log is shown in Figure 8.19. This confirms the different learningapproaches of the students. At this time Markus expressed concern at ‘remembering’ previouslylearnt material (ie that of ENG260), and spent time on review and exercises. Vaughnspread himself across multiple tasks – as Project Manager at this stage, he felt a need to beon top of it all.Issues raised by the Project Manager tended to be technical (eg The delay of submissionof the Requirements Specification caused further delay of starting the Architecture Models).However, some comments could be reflective:Alaina The task required individual study and research,which appeared to have been managed by every group member. Anissue was little time was spent on group discussion due to thelarge workload on individualsDermot Although most tasks had been completed by individuals,it was valuable we had time to compare work and clarify how the373

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