Your Strengths and Limitations

 

Make a realistic assessment of your own strengths and limitations. If the topic hasn’t yet been determined, is there one about which you already know a fair bit and/or one for which you know exactly where to find great resources?

Ask yourself which aspects of the process you can do efficiently and which aspects require more time and energy. Do you need to put more effort into:

  • taking good notes?
  • grasping ideas from your reading?
  • critically evaluating your writing?
  • editing your writing?