5 Steps for Planning a Successful Paper
By: Garin Kilpatrick
“If I plan to learn I must learn to plan”
Those words were written on my sixth grade teachers desk. They will stay with me for life because they depict an important point: Planning is imperative to success. This point is no less true when applied to writing a paper. By breaking a paper down into a planned process the writing process becomes much more manageable. Follow these 5 steps and help systematically secure the success of your paper!
1. Plan your Paper with an Outline
A well structured paper is well on its was to a great mark. Every paper has an introduction paragraph, a conclusion paragraph, and as many body paragraphs as you need to fit the paper to the length requirement in between. Start by finding one quote for each body paragraph you are going to write. Then write a concluding sentence. These five sentences might take you the longest to write, but they are like piecing the the border of a puzzle together first, and make everything afterwards fall into place.
2. Plan to Meet your Deadline
When you get a new paper assignment try to tackle a tiny bit at a time. One great way to do this is to write your paper on a mobile phone too. Eduify offers a cool and free way to write on the go with the Eduify Windows Mobile App! Access your essay from anywhere with the Eduify WinMo App and get it done faster. iPhone users, we did not forget about you! We are in the process of building out our WinMo App for the Apple App Store so stay tuned! In the meantime most cell phones and blackberries offer note taking capabilities so take advantage of them by jotting down points for your paper. I am copying some of this post from notes I made on my Blackberry!
3. Plan to Procrastinate
Even the best of us get distracted from time to time. Plan to finish your paper early so that as the deadline draws near you won’t have to scramble. If you are well ahead of the game with your paper there are tons of sites worth checking out, even though they may not help you accomplish much. If you follow our proven planning steps you will have more than enough time to check out 10 of the coolest sites to surf when you’re ready to procrastinate!
4. Plan time for Editing
A well edited paper is the difference between either looking like a pro, or a sloppy student. Plan to go over your paper as many times as you can. No matter how much time you edit your paper yourself there are some things that only another person will notice. Plan to get as much feedback from more experienced writers as you can. Eduify offers expert editing and proofreading services that are made very affordable with Eduify coins. Eduify coins can be purchased with cash, or by trading in points for coins. You can earn points by doing many different things on eduify.com, like referring friends, or using the tools on our site to help you write.
5. Plan a few Paragraphs at a Time
Hearing that you having to write a 10 page paper, or a paper with a minimum of 5,000 words, can sound seriously daunting. By breaking a paper down in terms of paragraphs instead makes the task far more comprehensible. If you think about having two short weeks to finish that 5,000 word essay the task seems insurmountable. By thinking in terms of paragraphs and planning wisely with just one paragraph a day you will finish your paper early. Since eduify can help your write faster you’ll have plenty of time to procrastinate, and even to take a minute and run the paper through our Plagiarism Check so you don’t need to worry about facing expulsion for forgetting to cite a quote.
