How could you work backward from the due date of a paper in your daily planner? How could you slice ...

Get students to think about the various activities involved in writing a paper. Encourage them to think beyond the categories outlined in this chapter and to consider the steps they typically proceed through when composing. The goal is to compose a brief list of four or five steps so that these steps can be incorporated into a daily planner. If, for example, a student likes to re-read relevant material before jotting notes on the assignment sheet, then she has two steps that she can identify in her planner--two self-imposed deadlines.