text: Some may say that a teacher designed project is better because it is a more structured assignment that has a more predictable end result, but I believe that a more structured assignment is not necesarily a good thing. While a structured assignment does have its benefits a more open ended project allows students to work more creatively within the peramiters provided, and ensures that the end result better reflects the time and effort put forth by the student. Another important benefit provided by open ended projects is that it makes it harder to cheat or plagarize from other students. If every student is given the task of completing the exact same project it makes it very easy to take the work of another student and slightly edit it for thier own project. This problem is largely elliminated with student designed projects because no two students will be doing the same exact project, and everyones projects will be unique to them.