LibGuides: Senior Projects: Brainstorming and Planning

Videos

Tips and Resources

The NGU Writing Center has this handout that gives excellent advice on the prewriting stages.

Check out this page from the Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for more information on various brainstorming techniques.

Click here to watch award winning presentations in the Three Minute Thesis competition. You may see a presentation that sparks an idea.

Ask the professor who will be grading your work if you can see examples of excellent previous projects to get a feel for how yours should look.

Time Management

Goblin Tools Magic ToDo
Give the free website a task, such as write your senior thesis, and it will break that task into smaller chunks. You can also have each subtask broken into smaller steps.
ChatGPT
While you can't use ChatGPT to help write, you can use it to help you determine how long you might need to spend on the various aspects of your project. It can create a timeline for you if that's something you struggle with.