Planning your assignment
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Planning your assignment
Analyse the topic
- What is the purpose of the task/topic?
- What is it asking?
Brainstorm the topic
- 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 and 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 with lecture notes and prescribed or recommended text books.
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 your ideas.
- Select key points.
Start writing
- Keep your topic in mind when writing.
- Follow formatting requirements.
- Check for grammar, coherence, flow.
- Follow relevant citation style.
Submit
- Submit your assignment.