Pick Your Workstation And Equipment:
Choose a quiet area where you know you won't be disturbed. You'll know whether you work better in the library or at home, but do not choose somewhere you've never been before. You need to be confident that you'll be comfortable and able to focus for as long as possible. Be organized and come equipped with two pens, a bottle of water, any notes you have and some snacks to use as mini-rewards. These will keep you going without having to take your eyes off the screen (apparently dark chocolate is the best option for concentration!).
Get Rid Of Social Media And Other Distraction:
Procrastination is a student's worst enemy (besides a hangover). Turn off your phone (or place it face down on silent) and resist the urge to check social media. Do not trust yourself? Temporarily deactivate your accounts or get a friend to change your passwords for 24 hours.
Plan A Schedule And Set Yourself Time Management Goals:
Time management is pretty necessary when you have 24 hours before a point in time. Assign yourself chunks of your time to reach certain milestones, as this breaks down the big daunting task and provides extra motivation every time you tick off one of the relatively easy mini-tasks. Let's say it's 9am and your coursework is due in first thing tomorrow morning. If you are wondering how to write a coursework faster, here's a feasible 14-hour timeline that you} can follow (remember this is just a brief outline of each stage – we go into more detail below!):
- 9am – 9.30am: choose your coursework questions and decide on your overall argument
- 9.30am – 11am: write coursework and outline of your work
- 11am – 11.45am: flesh out your introduction
- 11.45am – 1pm: research quotes and references to back up your arguments
- 1pm – 1.45pm: lunch break
- 1.45pm – 6pm: write the body of the coursework
- 6pm – 6.45pm: dinner break
- 6.45pm – 10.30pm: edit, improve and meet the word count
- 10.30pm – 11pm: print (if needed) and obtain everything ready for the morning.
Remember to schedule in a few short 10-minute breaks (one each 45–60 minutes so ought to do the trick). Giving your brain a rest is vital to keeping your overall productivity levels up, and stretching or doing some brief exercises also will help.
How To Write A Coursework Introduction Quickly:
It might seem a little counter-intuitive to start writing coursework before you've sourced all of your quotes and references, but there's a method to our madness. Writing all 2,000 words in one go is a pretty depressing thought, so anything you can do to break up the workload is a positive step. As your intro is unlikely to need many (if any) quotes, it makes sense to get the ball rolling and feel a sense of achievement as soon as you've planned your coursework and know where it's going. This way, when you sit down after lunch to tackle the main body of the coursework, you'll have already knocked a couple of hundred words off the word count.
How To Find Sources For Your Coursework:
Now it's time to gather the all-important information and quotes to support your arguments. It is important to limit the time you spend on this, as it is easy to get distracted when google presents you with copious amounts of irrelevant data. But you will find your coursework easier to write down if you're armed with lots of relevant data, so do not scrimp on it either.
Choose the keywords you're searching for wisely, and copy and paste any key ideas and quotes you find into a separate 'research' document. If you're using reference books rather than online resources, give yourself an extra 10 minutes to get anything that looks useful from the library. And, although it sounds obvious, remember to use the index. Don't worry too much about making it sound amazing at this point – just get stuck into introducing your argument and telling the reader how you'll support it. You can go back and make yourself sound smarter later on when you are at the editing stage. Create a mini-outline in your introduction therefore you signpost exactly what it is you're planning to argue.