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Appropriate time management facilitates a student's ability to learn and to improve one's overall quality of life, as well as make the most of the quantity of time one has for certain tasks.
For instance, when studying, tackling the most difficult subjects first, when one is mentally fresh, whether one is a morning or a night person, can be an effective method to grasp a difficult study area. Using short and frequent study sessions throughout the semester rather than cramming is another important time management technique -- and even simply making the most of one's spare moments leaves one with the satisfaction that one does not simply have clean laundry, but can go to bed an extra hour earlier, rather than begin one's calculus homework at midnight! ("Time Management," 2002)
Understanding the dangers of fallacious thinking is the last important step in taking what is learned in the classroom and applying it to life for a student. One turns on the evening news and hears a politician employing the slippery slope argument, for example, when he insists...
Everyone knows, an advertisement proclaims, that one wants to have the newest ring-tone for one's cell phone, regardless of the cost or how annoying the advertised tone is to one's ears -- an appeal to ignorance or common perceptions. ("Steven's Guide to Fallacies," 1996) if one can identify fallacious appeals in the media, then one is less likely to find one's self listening to and agreeing with someone who is not speaking in one's best interests, and becomes less of a tool of the persuasive devises of advertisers. And in the classroom too, it is only wise to apply similar rigorous scrutiny to one's own argumentation against one's fellow students and professors.
Works Cited
Time Management." (20 Feb 2002) the Achievement Center. Retrieved 8 Jun 2005 at http://www.d.umn.edu/student/loon/acad/strat/time_man_princ.html
Steven's Guide to Fallacies." (1996) Data Nation. Retrieved 8 Jun 2005 at http://www.datanation.com/fallacies/index.htm
Works Cited
Time Management." (20 Feb 2002) the Achievement Center. Retrieved 8 Jun 2005 at http://www.d.umn.edu/student/loon/acad/strat/time_man_princ.html
Steven's Guide to Fallacies." (1996) Data Nation. Retrieved 8 Jun 2005 at http://www.datanation.com/fallacies/index.htm
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