General

Assignments: answering the question

• A video from MSLETB offering a beginners guide to approaching writing assignments in Further Education.

Assignment Checklist

• Download and use this checklist of items to look at before, during and after finishing your assignment. 

Assignment Calculator

• A scheduling tool that's aimed at helping you complete your assignment on time by breaking down the assignment into different steps with suggested start and end dates for step.

Getting Started

Brainstorming - University of North Carolina Writing Center

• This page discusses brainstorming in more detail and describes other brainstorming approaches in addition to free writing and mind mapping

Bubbl.us

• This is a freemium (Wikipedia definition) website where you can create mindmaps online. 

Freemind

• Freemind is a very good piece of software that allows you to do mindmapping on a computer rather than a piece of paper.  It's not for everyone, but have a look at it.

Freemind Tutorial Video