We were required to do a little writing exercise during the class and were later told to discuss the way we “tackled” our assignments. Here’s a little something from our second briefing.
As we all began to throw ideas on how we did our assignments, we discovered a number of similiarities and differences.
Similar
- Doing the research first
- Grouping chunks of related information together and later sorting them out
- Brainstorming on how the flow of the essay/assignment would go
Differences
- Checking the flow of each sentence as they are being written
- Checking the errors of the sentences only after everything has been completed
- Checking the errors of the sentences after everything has been completed and left for a few hours
- Colour coding each piece of information (from the research done)/ categorising the information so that all related information are grouped together
Which is the best method? I guess its pretty much up to individuals. So which do you prefer?
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Julia Hobson
on September 15, 2008 at 1:27 pm One of the processes that I often think is overlooked when doing the research is how we categories the information that we find.
It is so important to take up the general rule:
Never read an academic text without writing something at the same time.
What did you write?
Where will you file that piece of writing?
How did that piece of writing help you in your understanding of the text ?This changes the research part of tackling assignments to an active writing part of the assignment.
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Xian Ang
on October 4, 2009 at 3:34 pm I agreed with Julia on the difficulties of categorization of information we find, usually the time when we begin to collate the researched materials. There are many related information available in our globalized world, through the forms of old (e.g. books, magazines, TV, radio, newspapers, etc) and new (e.g. internet, blogs, etc) media that allows us to compile tonnes of informational material for discussion and implementation for our assignments.
But because of these huge variety of information which we amassed, we will be encountering lots of frustration in sifting through the pile and getting the right sources necessary for our assignments. For me, this problem – to this day, has never been solved.
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