Many students come to college lacking experience in doing a big project over time and breaking it down into its parts. This can result in poor time management, missed deadlines, and incomplete/unsubmitted projects.
Many students come to college lacking experience in doing a big project over time and breaking it down into its parts. This can result in poor time management, missed deadlines, and incomplete/unsubmitted projects.
Frame a question that is an appropriate scope for the assignment.
Develop planning/time management strategies.
Employ iteration and move beyond a one-and-done approach.
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Talk about your own research process and experiences with students. If you use a reference manager, show your students how you have set it up and how you use it. Our own processes might seem obvious to us, but they are often surprising for students.
Provide examples of successful papers. These can be from past students, examples of targets, even something written by you, the professor.
For big projects, make many smaller deadlines throughout the semester, so that at the end the students are pulling together work. Short circuit procrastination. Hold people to the deadlines or else they will be able to leave it all to the last minute anyway.