Week 1 - Introduction Flashcards
What is Task Management?
Understanding the job, placnning what to do, getting it done, evaluating the outcome then asking ‘what now’?
List of requirements for me, for effective study:
- Comfortable desk & chair
- appropriate lighting
- computer, keyboard, mouse, internet connection
- Highlighters, pens w/ wide rubber grips, notebook
- Brainscape
- ear plugs, noise cancelling headphones
- water, chocolate
On wall in study space:
- Calendar of due assessment items, readings etc
- study plan for achieving this
- plans for studying at work and on mobile devices
Tasks tend to expand to fill the time available. True or false?
True!
Budget free time, housework and time with specific family members. Include holidays.
Be specific about free time activities to maintain a balanced life. Be specific about housework tasks.
Plan a strategy to enable location of specific texts and information - a logical way of organising data and managing publications details of these texts.
Referencing software - EndNote, ProCite, MS words citation tool etc. See Wikipedia entry on reference-management software.
Schedule and carry out backups of semesters work
- USB stick
- CD-rom
- ?
Useful for reflection on me as a learner:
Skills audit - www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/studyskills/essentials/start/index.html
Time management help:
www. time-management-guide.com.index.html
www. mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_HTE.htm
Resources for time management, study skills and learning styles:
Communicating in the Health Sciences 3rd Ed. by Higgs, Ajjawi, McAllister, Trede and Loftus (2012) - end of ch 5
Type of academic writing: Argue, defend or critique a PoV.
Essay
Type of academic writing: Develop and provide evidence for a position.
Thesis
Type of academic writing: Inform clients or colleagues about a client’s or group’s needs or problems, and make recommendations for intervention.
Clinical report
Type of academic writing: Inform relevant others about your treatment of a client to date.
File notes.
Type of writing: May incl. a needs assessment, program proposal, budget and plan for evaluation.
Community Health Proposal