Dead-lines!

How to measure progress on our research projects as the 5 December dead-line looms?

For those who act on good advice, their research reports are surely writing themselves! Many of the presenters at the Library Academy recommended the daily habit of committing time to writing and putting ideas onto paper – you have nothing until it is on paper!

For the rest of us, help is at hand in the form of an interesting - if optimistic – online time management tool. It is offered by a couple of US libraries to assist students and researchers manage their research.
Take a look at:

Henry Madden Library Assignment Research Calculator
University of Minesota Assignment Calculator

These calculators produce neatly packaged timelines which not only customize your project and fit it into the time you have available but also admonish you to pay attention to critical issues such as plagiarism and factor in time for those all important rewrites.