How to Write Better Essays

Organisation

Needless to say, if we are to make all these changes successfully, we

will have to make sure we organise our work in the most effective way.

In the final chapters of this stage we will look at how to reorganise our

retrieval system to tap into our own ideas and to pick up material wher-

ever and whenever it appears. We will also examine the way we organ-

ise our time and the problems that can arise if we fail to do it effectively.

Indeed, if we ignore either of these, we make it difficult for ourselves

to get the most out of our abilities and to process our ideas well. Even

though most of us routinely ignore it, organisation is the one aspect

of our pattern of study that can produce almost immediate improve-

ments in our work.

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