This innovative book provides clear and straight-forward strategies which help students to understand the conventions of academic assignments and what lecturers expect from their work. Simplify Your Study is organised around nine core units which focus on the 'sticking points' of university study, including organisation and planning, reading and note-making strategies, producing essays, critical thinking, delivering presentations and preparing for exams. Packed with tried-and-tested strategies for success, this essential resource will help students of all disciplines and levels to achieve their academic potential.
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When you organise, you put things into an order that makes sense to you. While some students can get by without explicitly organising their work, most will benefit from effective organisation and planning strategies. This unit presents three strategies for organising and planning academic work. The strategies are simple, easy to implement and personalise and don’t take long to complete. The strategies can be used together as a 3 step process:
step 1:
make an assessed work overview to identify and provide focus for all your academic work
step 2:
produce an academic year overview that puts your coursework deadlines into a clear timeframe
step 3:
use a weekly planner to plan and monitor your work
The unit ends with a simple strategy aimed at effective working in timed sessions. Ideally, you should think about organisation as early as possible, but you can implement these strategies at any time during the academic year, especially if you become overwhelmed with the demands of your study. Because these strategies are simple, they can easily be overlooked or dismissed but they will help you identify, focus, prioritise and monitor your work.
1.1.making an assessed work overview
1.2.making a semester or academic year planner
1.3.making and using a weekly planner
1.4.creating effective study sessions
1.1
making an assessed work overview
the aim
Establishing a clear focus at the start of the academic year is important. This strategy provides an easy to use document that displays all the assessed work (coursework and exams) that you will be required to complete for a particular course. It aims to replace the idea of ‘reading around the subject’ with a clear task-focused approach to academic work.
why this can help you
The work you do for any course should be focused on the assessed work, not simply on the course title or subject or on reading all the books on a reading list. However, when starting a course, many students are uncertain about the amount, type or value of the assessed work they will need to do. This uncertainty can cause unnecessary anxiety.
Making an assessed work overview displays and, importantly, limits the work to be done. This can help you achieve a sense of control. It also identifies the most important work (that which carries the most marks) so that you can allocate and prioritise your time more efficiently. It gives a clear and specific focus, which will be the basis for reading and for other work involved in completing coursework and preparing for exams. The assessed work overview is the first step to effectively organising and planning your work.
the strategy
From the various sources available (module handbooks, e-learning sites, websites, introductory lectures, tutors etc.) identify, collect and list all the assessed work for each module of your course.
The overview should include:
• the type of assessment (essay, presentation, poster, exam etc.)
• the length of the assessment (word limit, time for a presentation or exam etc.)
• the date of submission or date of exam
• the value of each assessment (as a % of the module)
For this document, you only need this essential detail. Put this information into a table on a single sheet of A4 paper. There is an example of an assessed work overview below and a template for you to adapt is availa...
