My university professor assigned a homework asking me to write
"up to 250 words detailing a time when you have come up with an ingenious or original solution to a problem-issue."
What do YOU understand from the way my professor formulated the question?
Does he want me to
(i) detail a TIME when I came up with an original solution to a problem-issue,
OR
(ii) write about the SOLUTION itself.
If it is simply a 'time' he wants, wouldn't such construction indicate that he's interested in the date only? In such a scenario I'd perhaps be justified to write something like 'January 15, 1997' and put a full stop to the sentence, and hand the assignment back to the professor.
However, if you go for number (ii), then how does 'time' come into equation here? And why didn't the professor ask me to 'describe' the solution in the first place?
How do YOU construe his question?
"up to 250 words detailing a time when you have come up with an ingenious or original solution to a problem-issue."
What do YOU understand from the way my professor formulated the question?
Does he want me to
(i) detail a TIME when I came up with an original solution to a problem-issue,
OR
(ii) write about the SOLUTION itself.
If it is simply a 'time' he wants, wouldn't such construction indicate that he's interested in the date only? In such a scenario I'd perhaps be justified to write something like 'January 15, 1997' and put a full stop to the sentence, and hand the assignment back to the professor.
However, if you go for number (ii), then how does 'time' come into equation here? And why didn't the professor ask me to 'describe' the solution in the first place?
How do YOU construe his question?