Using What I Learned –
Over the last few zoom sessions, we have been looking at a variety of tips and techniques to help with our research paper writing. For example:
Zoom Session 21 – The Research Paper, an initial discussion
Zoom Session 23 – How to Read a Book and Other Ideas
Zoom Session 24 – Photograph Analysis with Christabel Harley
Zoom Session 25 – Library and Research Tips with Julia Flood
Zoom Session 26 – Meet the Supervisor with Janet Waring Rego
All of the sessions listed above proved to be incredibly helpful from: learning how to set aside planned time for research using the Pomodoro technique, to reading only the first sentence of each paragraph in a research paper.
An example of the Pomodoro technique is as follows:
- Decide on the task you need to do.
- Set a timer for 25 minutes.
- Focus only on your task until the timer rings.
- Take a five-minute break.
- After every four Pomodoros, take a longer 15–30 minute break.
Taking into account everything that we have learned during these sessions I feel that I’m now ready to start putting pen to paper in an attempt to write a 1000 word research paper proposal.
