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[Jingyichen]

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I will take TOEFL test on Saturday. Please check my essay and make your comment.
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Nowadays there is a growing controversial issue that should people finish projects one by one or run more than one projects at the same time. Someone hold the opinion that doing several projects at the same time is quite efficient, while another position says that projects finished one by one are often of higher quality. As far as I am concerned, I give my vote to the latter opinion for the following reasons.

The first reason I want to put forward is that only by doing one project at a time can people do a good job and have a better chance of finishing it more quickly. It is undeniable that the effort of a person is limited. I do admit that there really exists someone who can handle several things at the same time, but for most of people finishing projects one by one can ensure the quality of every project to some extent. Take me for example. Once, my teacher asked me to do a programming project, while at the same time I promised my friend to help him set up a database. I wanted to save time for I had several tests later, so I did these two projects at the same time. What dismayed me was that I just messed up those two projects. There were several bugs in the program and database which made my teacher and my friend very disappointed. I felt really upset, and then I began to center on my teacher’s project first. After having finished it, I shifted my concentrate on the project of my friend which also achieved a dramatic result at last. From then on, I never worked on several projects at the same time since it might cost more time to make every project well.

The second reason to reinforce my point of view is that we can avoid making the same fault by doing projects one by one. By finishing a project, we can attain more experience which can be used in the subsequent projects. Life abounds with such examples. My uncle is an engineer and once he told me that he found out a drawback in his design from the construction which was in built. What was worse was that this design had been used in the two constructions which were being built at the same time in the city. As a result, it took a lot of money to make up the drawback. So if those two constructions could have been built one by one, it would save half of the lost. Running several projects just makes it impossible to get the projects better and better through the experience.

However, the fact that people can make it more efficient by running some relevant projects at the same time can’t be easily left out. For instance, we can assume that boiling water takes 5 minutes and washing cups takes 4 minutes. If people do the two things one by one, it will take 9 minutes, while people can only spend 5 minutes if they use the time waiting for water getting boiled to wash cups. This is a good example of running relevant projects together. Nonetheless, accurately identifying the relevance of different projects is the prerequisite of this action and precise calculation is needed in this process. Therefore, in most cases dealing with projects one by one is no doubt the best way.

To sum up, considering all the analysis above we can safely come to the conclusion that people should finish projects one by one except some relevant projects.

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[Andy2012]

I wrote for this essay in almost 30min, running out of time ...