Is time management significant in avoiding an accumulation of stress in students, therefore aiding academic business writing?

Elizabeth Lovett – 1333401

Contents Introduction 3 Main Body 4 What is Time Management? 4 How can time management skills be established and developed? 5 Strategic Thinking 5 Personal Development Plan (PDP) 6 Advance Planning 7 Do these skills allow for good time management? 8 Does a lack of time management lead to stress? 9 Conclusions 10 Recommendations 10 List of References 11

Introduction
This report is going to be examining what time management is and how time management skills can be established and developed through various methods. Also, it will be discussed whether the aforementioned methods are effective. Following on from this, the relevance of time management and its associated skills will be evaluated in regard to academic business writing. Finally, the effects of a lack of time management and whether this results in a build-up of stress causing writing quality to decrease. Research will be presented on recent findings about time management skills, as well as those which have been deemed successful for a number of years in many scenarios. Whilst it may be difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of more recent theories, I will give my recommendations at the end based on all the information discussed.
Time management is a skill of great importance and should be regarded highly before even beginning to write any academic business work. Choosing to write about this topic came from my confidence that time management improves the quality of structure, flow and overall content in a piece. Without proper time management, it is easy to allocate too little time to the planning of a document. This means that when beginning the initial draft it is very common to discover that areas which need to be