Student Success Skills

Managing Big Assignments

by jennifer

July 13, 2012

Exhibit One

Task List for Writing a Research Paper

Task	Target Date	Completion	Comments
1. Identify the subject
2. Obtain approval for the subject
3. Find material to read on the topic
4. Take notes and identify proper citations
5. Organize notes
6. Make an outline for the paper
7. Write section 1
8. Write section 2
9. Write section 3
10. Write section 4
11. Write section 5
12. Prepare Bibliography
13. Revise paper
14. Have review meeting with your teacher
15. Correct Paper
16. Submit

My biggest improvements this semester have been going to tutors, creating study groups in my dorm, and keeping a calendar of quizzes and tests. Last semester I was reluctant to visit the tutors because I thought that no one in the tutoring center would be able to help me with high level math. Being in Calc 3 it can be very hard to find tutors who can help. Another thing that really has helped me is making a study group for my statistics class. I found two other people in my dorm who were in my class, so we made a study group. It has really helped me stay on top of my homework in the class. Finally, making a calendar with all of my test and quiz dates has eliminated any chance of me being surprised by a test or quiz in any of my classes..