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1. Your instructor just gave your class the prompts for your first essay, which is due in two weeks. How do you proceed from here?
- Choose a prompt and begin working on a thesis immediately. Better to get it out of the way!
- Read over the prompts and let them sink in for a week or so. You'll still have one more week to finish the assignment, right?
- Read the prompts and maybe start playing around with ideas, but wait to really start writing until the day before. You swear it's all in your head somewhere!
- Depends on how much work you have for your other classes. But you might forget about it until a few hours before the assignment is due, and ask for an extension.
2. You are working on a group assignment that requires you to split up responsibilities with 3 other classmates. When would you typically finish your part?
- First. Then you're done and don't have to worry about it. Plus it could give you time in case you want to tweak anything later.
- After one or two of the others have submitted their materials to the group, but definitely not last. You wanted to see how they approached it first.
- Maybe last, but definitely before the assignment due date and hopefully before any of the other group members ask about it.
- Definitely last. You'll wait until everyone else has done their work, so you can make sure you are not duplicating efforts. Whatever, this is why you hate group work.
3. Your instructor just posted the instructions for your next assignment and you read them but don't quite understand what he's asking for in a certain part. What would you probably do?
- Maybe last, but definitely before the assignment due date and hopefully before any of the other group members ask about it.
- Try to figure it out for yourself. You're pretty sure what he's trying to say, and you'll give it your best shot.
- Don't say anything until after the assignment is due. Other people in the class felt the same way too, probably!
- Send him an email that afternoon. When he doesn't respond that night, email him again. This is your worst nightmare—you just want to know what he wants!!
4. The course you are taking requires you to post on a weekly discussion forum by Sunday night each week so the class can talk about everyone's posts on Monday. When do you submit your posts?
- Sunday night. You always forget during the weekend!
- Tuesday night, after the first day of class that week. Then it's out of the way.
- Thursday or Friday night. You want to let the week's discussion sink in a little so you can collect your thoughts.
- Monday at 3 AM. That still counts as Sunday night, right?
5. You have an important assignment due Monday morning, and you have a social/work/family obligation that will keep you busy for most of the weekend. It is now the Wednesday before the assignment is due. How would you approach this dilemma?
- You tell yourself that you'll finish it by Friday night, so you can have your weekend free, but you still have a little left to do on Sunday—no big deal.
- You tell yourself that you'll finish it by Friday night, and you manage this by chipping away at it over those 3 days. …Little. By. Little.
- You already finished it yesterday, the day it was assigned. Done!
- You tell yourself that you'll take the weekend off, then stay up late on Sunday or wake up early on Monday to finish it. It's not a final or anything, and you have a life.
6. You have to read 150 pages before your next class meeting. You have 4 days to do so. What would you most likely do?
- 150 pages divided by 4 days means... a little less than 40 pages a day. You like to chunk it this way because then you'll also have time to go over your notes and highlights, and come up with questions for the instructor.
- 150 pages divided by... well, ... 2 days (because it's been a long week), means 75 pages a day. Totally doable.
- 150 pages, the day before it is due. You did this to yourself, it's fine.
- How much time does it take to skim the text for key words and/or find a summary online?
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