Assignment Planning
To meet an assignment deadline, some backward planning can be helpful, working from the due date back to the present time. Backward planning requires you to identify the stages involved in assignment preparation and to allocate each stage appropriate times and tasks in your semester, monthly and weekly schedules. Commonly these stages involve:
- identifying what you already know
- determining what is required
- analysing the question
- deciding what information you need
- locating relevant information sources
- gathering source material
- reading, digesting and recording the information
- grouping information and identifying key issues
- deciding what information to include
- creating a assignment plan
- developing a first draft
- refining the draft
- editing the final draft
| Polishing for presentation |
- writing a reference list and checking citations for accuracy, completeness and correctness
- printing a final copy
- reward yourself !
For each main stage of the process ask yourself how long will it take? When will I do it? Then incorporate these tasks into your study timetable.
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