EN 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Serendipity, Academic Writing, Metacrawler
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Body of email: surname, first name, student number. 4 parts to thinking like an academic researcher: overview of core principles, discovering sources (planning for gold) Impossible to estimate the time and energy required to get research. Because you can"t predict you need to start your assignment early and allow yourself a lot of. Power of serendipity. (sheer dumbass good luck, find something really good with good luck) Physically go into the library and find books, look at the books around you in the library. Consequently, you need 2 skills, risk assessment (have a back up plan in place) and time management (allocate 30 mins to do research) Thinking about everything that can go wrong. Set your own due date: and make it earlier than the assigned due date. Make your own deadlines and make them earlier. Build redundancy/duplication into your study plan, do short frequent study periods.
