![]() I’ve seen that students who take full advantage of such resources often experience much stronger mental health and achieve significantly higher levels of academic performance. Here at UNTHSC we have learning specialists who can walk you through your personal struggles in time management. One piece of advice I have is that you should not be ashamed to seek help that will help you develop your time management skills. Maybe you’re not confident in your abilities, and you need to come see me to further establish your confidence. Maybe the end goal of writing seems far away and you need to set short-term goals to finish your project, possibly using an outline (in the writing stage) or to-do list (in any research stages) that you can check off. If writing is unpleasant for you, perhaps you can concentrate on positive aspects of the writing process, keeping careful track of these benefits to restore your interest. If you don’t know where to begin, maybe you can try to start by writing a rough outline that will give you a structure to follow. Now, if you struggle with procrastination, don’t beat yourself up over it. This one is by far the hardest, and there are five basic reasons why people seem to procrastinate: you don’t have a structure to follow, so you don’t know where to begin for you, writing is an unpleasant task, so you put it off till the last possible moment writing is a choice that will have long-term and uncertain results, so it’s harder to see immediate goals met you’re anxious about writing papers or you’re not confident in your ability to write. Let’s go over some of the tips, and I’ll explain what I mean. The video provides strong, helpful advice that largely applies to nearly all writing, not just the writing project discussed the video. Pete Carr, sitting at his desk, talking about how to write a scientific research article over a weekend (provided you have already completed your preliminary research). ![]() There were no flashing lights, no frills, no gimmicks, no professional lighting. ![]() I saw a video recently that was refreshing.
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