The document provides strategies for students to achieve academic success by managing stress, practicing good time management, concentrating effectively, staying motivated, and setting realistic goals. It also provides tips for writing research papers and evaluating internet resources.
20. Whatever situation you meet in life, consider first whether it is really worth fighting for.
21. Try to keep your mind on pleasant aspects of life and on actions that improve your situation. Nothing paralyzes your efficiency more than frustration; nothing helps it more than success.
22. Even after the greatest defeats, combat the depressing thought of being a failure by taking stock of all your past achievements, which no one can deny you.
23. When faced with a task that is very painful yet indispensable to achieve your aim, don’t procrastinate.
26. Think in terms of evolution, not revolution. Revolutionary changes only inspire counterrevolutions. If you want to change the way you eat, start by changing just one meal a week.
27. Identify your resources. Do you have the knowledge, skills, finances, and time--whatever it takes? Find out from others who know. Be sure you’re ready for the next step.
28. Systematically analyze barriers. How can you acquire missing resources? Identify and select alternative plans. List solutions for any obstacles you foresee.
29. Choose a plan. Think it through, step by step trying to anticipate what might go wrong and why.
30. Unlike most print resources such as magazines, journals, and books that go through a filtering process (e.g. editing,
31. peer review, library selection), information on the Internet is mostly unfiltered. So using and citing information
32. found over the Internet is a little like swimming without a lifeguard. The following guide provides a starting point
40. The first paragraph is often the most difficult to write. If you have trouble, just get it down with the intention of re-writing it later, even after you have finished with the rest. But remember this first entry draws your audience into your topic, your
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42. Connect one idea to the next topic sentences in each paragraph. (See a examples of transitional words and phrases on
43. page 7.) Also near the beginning, define their place in the overall scheme. Avoid one and two sentence paragraphs which may reflect lack of development of your point.