Question

1. Reflect on what “time management” means to you. Provide an example of a time that you successfully managed your time for this project and an example of a time that you felt you may have misjudged the available time to complete a task.
2. Reflect on the process of conducting a literature review. What aspects of this process were familiar and which aspects were difficult? Describe your skill level with researching information and selecting appropriate sources.
3. If you could provide advice to a new student entering this course for the first time, what would you say about how to successfully conduct a literature review? What advice would you offer on time management?

Answer 1

The term 'time management' actually means managing ourselves so that we can utilize the time better. Everybody gets 24 hours in a day. It depends on us how we make the maximum use of it. I have always been efficient with my work and can manage my time well. When I was assigned a project last summer, I first made a timeline and then did all my work according to it. Thus was able to finish my work in time. However, once i procrastinated and missed the deadline of submitting an assignment. This happened because i misjudged thinking I have ample amount of time with me and hence became laid back.

Conducting a literature review is an important process in any research work. I was familiar that for literature review I must look up relevant studies, experiments that were done in the field or the research topic. However, I was not aware of the fact that it is an in-depth process. I also thought Google search would be enough but we must go to the libraries and dig the archives to look for articles and classics. Over the time, I have developed my skill level and now I know which information needs to be picked up and delved deeper into.

To a new comer, I would suggest that one must avoid procrastination. A timeline and a to do list is very important to manage time well. For literature review, we must first clearly understand the research topic at hand. Then,step by step we can move ahead.