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Time Management

Time

1. the favourable or appropriate moment to do something

2. the length of time taken to complete an activity

3. time as allotted, available, or used

Management

administer and regulate (resources)

Procrastination

1. to put off intentionally and habitually

2. to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done

-- from Latin "procrastinare" (defer till the morning)

Downloads for Reference

• Manage Your Time Wisely! (PDF by MICA's April Walters)

  This flyer recommends turning the syllabi of each class into a mega-syllabus, plus adding sub-deadlines for yourself, with an example of how you might do it with 2 academic classes.

• Semester Planner (Excel spreadsheet by MICA's April Walters)

  This Excel Worksheet, divided into the 17 weeks of each semester (first day to Crit Week), has spaces for tracking 3 academic classes of readings, tests, and papers. You can print it out or work with it on the computer.

Time Management Links

• How to Manage your Time in College (eHow)

  It's always the little things - how do you make time for them?

• Procrastination (Psychological Self Help)

  This long (13pp if printed) page explains quite a lot about procrastination. It begins with describing the major types of procrasinators and how to help each type. Find out which type you are and find the system that can help you!

• Overcoming Writer's Block (Purdue OWL)

  Many different strategies (using an "if/then" format) to help you identify your barrier and break through it.

Understanding Your Assignment

Assignment

a task allocated to someone as part of a job or course of study

Handout from University of North Carolina

This explains how to understand assignment sheets, decode what is expected (hint: it's almost always an argument of some sort), and how to procede. This is a little long, but it also includes information on how to deduce the requested tone and what the page-length can tell you.

Planning & Prewriting

Plan

1. a detailed proposal for doing or achieving something.

2. an intention or decision about what one is going to do

3. a map or a diagram

Pre

prefix: before (in time, place, order, degree, or importance)

Planning & Prewriting Links

• Planning: Asking the right questions (Purdue OWL)

  20 questions that may give you a new thought about what to do with your topic.

• Planning & Invention (Purdue OWL)

  This has various strategies to get you started, including questions, tagmemics, cubing, analogies, and more!

• When You Start to Write (Purdue OWL)

  If the very linear styles of planning don't appeal to you, this page has more free-form suggestions.

• Coming Up With Your Topic (Dartmouth)

  Long but comprehsive page covering everything from reading actively, to informal and formal methods of idea generation, to broadening your topic, to narrowing it.

• Preparing to Write
• Essay Structure
• Editing Your Writing
• Citations