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If you are a student, if you have organizational difficulties, or if you are the type who just seems to procrastinate, forget, or confuse tasks, dates, meetings, assignments, and appointments, then you will likely benefit from an assignment book.

The assignment book is a lifesaver and a sanity-saver to many people, fitting into one or more of the above categories. It is a great tool, and as well, is great device for motivating and rewarding yourself. Here’s one example of how:

Get an assignment book at the beginning of the semester. Try to find a good one that has both blank boxes for each day of each month and also has a section of blank lines for each month, or, preferably, each week. After the first week (or, at the latest, two), pull out the syllabi from your classes, along with your new assignment book and a good pen—a pen that works, for starters, and that doesn’t bleed.

In the general monthly boxes, note each assignment due. You may want to use one color for each class, if you need additional help organizing and differentiating. At this point in the semester, you just have a vague/general note: January 30th, paper #1; February 4th, lab write-up, March 16th, history paper, etc..

When an assignment is given, write it down on the handout or in your notebook. Then, once you know the specifics of all the assignments for a week, first prioritize: which is due first? That will get a number one. Which is due next? That will get a number two. In your assignment book in the lines section, then, list each priority, one, two, three, through whatever number you have for the week.

Then, as you complete each assignment, cross it off the list with—if it helps—a colored marker. Or block it out altogether, so it is just a dark line you never have to look at again. At the end of the week, you can look at that list and be proud that it is all blocked off, that you have accomplished a great deal, on time, and in order.

Obviously, the idea is primarily to be organized, efficient, and at ease…as opposed to discombobulated, confused, slacking, and late with work due. But further, the assignment book, the listing method, and the reward of crossing off each completed task/assignment is empowering: it gives you freedom of structure and tells you how hard you have worked to succeed!


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