Thursday, 28 May 2009

Assignments are a scary business!

Submitted my first assignment this weekend. Got very tied working 7 days in a row to get it completed! Very difficult writing something that is part assignment and part research project within such a tight word limit of 4000 words - very difficult to balance how much to write in each section. Very scary seing all my colleagues assignments listed for peer review! Not a normal situation to see how good or bad your peers have done! At the saqme time its an interesting process to have a chance to get a fresh eye on my work and then be able to re-submit it. Focus is not on getting the assignment 'right' but the learning process.

Lots still to do with the module - lots of things to go back and build on. Big issue is about how to manage this work without being exhusted. Working early in the morning is working well to get time with the family in the evening, but its going to take more micro-management of my time, and more focsu to my time to use it effectively. Very easy to find lots of interesting avenues to go down with new things to discover and read about! Next assignment I think it will be useful to create a work plan in advance to balance my effort across all the aspects that will be needed - avoid missing out important issues such as understanding a critical issue such as validity etc. Will also try some sort of logic/knowledge map for the structure to the research as a backbone before geting deep into the writing process.

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