http://www.academicproductivity.com/2006/measuring-performance-and-immediate-feedback/ A survival guide for the 21st century researcher Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:37:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.academicproductivity.com/2006/measuring-performance-and-immediate-feedback/comment-page-1/#comment-51 academic productivity » Writing: granularity Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:33:34 +0000 http://www.academicproductivity.com/blog/archives/20#comment-51 [...] There is an invited post over at lifehack.org by Michael Leddy, an English professor who recommends that we should divide major actions (such as “write term paper”) into smaller, more doable tasks (NAs in GTD’s parlance). I think this could be a good read for students, and even for academics; Most of us keep this partitioning into smaller tasks “in our heads”; making it explicit and dumping it into paper might help with things such as time estimation… a consistent problem I have is that I never know how long I will need to finish a paper. This is one of the reasons I posted before that we need to decompose tasks to be able to track progress better. [...] [...] There is an invited post over at lifehack.org by Michael Leddy, an English professor who recommends that we should divide major actions (such as “write term paper”) into smaller, more doable tasks (NAs in GTD’s parlance). I think this could be a good read for students, and even for academics; Most of us keep this partitioning into smaller tasks “in our heads”; making it explicit and dumping it into paper might help with things such as time estimation… a consistent problem I have is that I never know how long I will need to finish a paper. This is one of the reasons I posted before that we need to decompose tasks to be able to track progress better. [...]

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