Target Planner on CLS and WRT105

When I first heard about the Faculty Interview Project, I was a little worried as to how I would get it all done. Being an Acting major, most of my time is taken up by the exorbitant amount of work we are assigned, and I wasn't sure that I was going to be able to get the project done and still retain some of my sanity. However, I was able to employ the use of the Target Planner, and it was more than a little helpful. By using the Target Planner, I was able to shrink what had seemed to be a project of overwhelming size to what my brain processed as a series of short assignments!

Below, I have scanned the Target Planner that I used to help keep me in track during the project.

When I used this planner, I keep it hanging up on my bulletin board. That way, every day I would wake up and see what needed to be done. I found this to be very helpful, and I would highly recommend pinning your target planner somewhere that is visually very easily accessible. I found that, the more I saw the deadlines I had set for myself and what needed to be done on a given day, the more likely I was to complete the tasks I had set for myself. Now, about a week before the project is due, I have completed every aspect of the project besides the reflection, and I still have time to spare. In fact, the Target Planner has made me work faster and more efficiently, because I see that, once I've broken the project down into smaller parts, it seems far less daunting.

I also used the Target Planner to help me write an essay for my Writing 105 class. It was interesting to see how the planner could work with an essay as well as a long-term project. I spaced out the paragraphs between the week I had to write it, and I found that I had trouble stopping once I got started writing. I tried to stick to my plan, but I found it easier to just write it once I was on a roll. I chose to use the remainder of the time I had plotted out to write the paper to makes edits and proofread the paper. It was useful, but not as useful as the strategy was for the Faculty Interview Project. I think in the future, I will still use the strategy, but I will factor in less time for writing, and more time for editing.

All in all, the strategy worked well, and I am going to recommend it to my sister, who is a sophomore in high school and often stresses about the amount of time she has to do her work.