Tasks to be completed Amount of time Date to be completed Completed (Y/N)? What was completed?
it will take to
complete (in
days)
Create my objective list in a ‘to- 0.5 03/12/2022 Y I managed to make a complete list
do’ list manner and make it more on what I want to find out or
detailed (i.e., how many personal complete in the span of this
accounts will I research, where project. Some things I included
will I look for the data, etc.) was looking at an individual case
and looked at figures about how
much the poor have been
criminalised compared to the
wealthy.
Begin researching basic 1 29/12/2022 Y This initial research really helped
components surrounding my me narrow down what exactly
topic so I get ideas and would be included in my essay. I
foundational knowledge on what made an initial ideas table to get
areas I would like to write about. my thoughts in one place
concerning the topic. I looked at a
different sources (from articles to
reports) and wrote down some key
or interesting points that I thought
I could research and develop
further in my essay.
Make and decide appropriate 1 02/12/2022 Y Although I had initially decided on
subheadings (at least 8, not doing at least 8 subheadings, after
including introduction and making 10 (initially), I felt that the
conclusion) and assign an word count assigned to each
approximate word count to them. section was too small and that I
was restricted by both my titled
sections and the word count. For
this reason, I condensed my
subheadings down to 6 with a
higher word count for each section
so I can explore my sources and