Why manage your information?

To manage the volume of literature you read and refer to, you will need to develop an effective way of managing the information and references you find.

Your assignment is due in 2 hours and you've just got the reference list to go. You're on campus - just need to print it out and dash over to the library to hand it in. No worries right?

Until you realise you didn't write down the page numbers you needed for that quote and you can't find your check out receipt to identify that book you used which you returned this morning.....
imagine


This situation could be avoided by consistently noting details, saving both time and frustration.