Essence Of Creating An Assignment Plan When Writing Your Assignment

Why Should You Create An Assignment Plan?

Planning your assignment can help you in several ways. Firstly, a plan helps you focus on what the assignment is really asking for.  It then helps you create a structure for your assignment, and then guides you through populating that structure. It gives you a timescale to work to which, if followed, will help avoid any last minute rush. By creating and following an assignment plan, your work will be better prepared, written, and presented.

 

When To Create An Assignment Plan

Create a plan as soon as you get your assignment. Give yourself as much time as you can. Start your assignments as soon as you can to avoid higher workloads. 

 

How To Create An Assignment Plan

1. Analyze the questions 

What are you required to do? Is it an essay? Is it a presentation? Is it a report? Look for the type of activity you are being asked to carry out. Are you being asked to evaluate? Discuss? Compare? Each of these will result in a different final piece of work. Are there multiple sections to the question? If so, make sure you answer each part fully.

2. What do you already know?

Try making a list of everything you already know about the assignment subject. Can you identify any areas that you need to work on?

 

3. Start your research.

Identify relevant information resources. Start researching your assignment subject. Stay focused on what you need to know for your assignment. Keep a list of searches you have conducted.

 

4. Read.

After researching, start reading through the results. Makes notes, and identify which parts are important. Try to spot recurring themes, separate your search results into these themes. This can then form the basis of your assignment.

 

5. Develop a first draft.

You now have a quantity of information about different themes, all relevant to your assignment. You can now write a first draft using the information you have gathered to answer the question set. At this point, it is just a first draft; it does not need to be perfect.

 

6. Second draft 

read your first draft. Think of how you can improve the draft. Does it fully answer the question set? Do the paragraphs flow? How does it compare to the word limit set? Do you need to add more? Do you need to cut anything?

 

7. The final draft

Check your work against the assignment brief. Have you answered everything you need to answer? How is the word limit? Have you referenced everything? Have you conformed to the standards of academic writing?

8. Proofread.

It is essential that you proofread your work. Use the spelling and grammar check function in Word but do not rely on it. Proofreading is easier if you print your work off first. You may ask someone else to proofread your work such as a friend, partner, or family member but it is not advisable to ask someone who is also doing the same assignment as you or a fellow student on your course.

 

9. Print the final copy.

Correct all the typos while proofreading your work, print it off and hand it in (or submit it electronically). Check your assignment brief for how you are expected to submit your work.

10. Relax.

You can now relax for up to 30 minutes before starting on the next assignment.