Planning your assignment
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Planning your assignment
Analyse the topic:
What is is asking?
What is the purpose of the task?
Brainstorm:
What do I already know?
What have I read?
What ideas/questions do I want to research?
Who are the key authors on my topic?
Plan your time:
Work back from the due date to plan time for research, drafts, editing. Take time to account for other work due
Construct a rough plan:
What are my main points?
What other ideas are worth including?
Preliminary research:
Revise lecture notes, main text books
Revise your plan
Begin researching:
Keep your topic in mind
Focus your research on relevant journal articles and texts
Record your findings
Revise your plan:
Consider the relationships between ideas
Select key points
Start writing:
Keep your topic in mind
Make several drafts then edit/proof read final draft:
Follow formatting requirements
Check for grammar, coherence, flow