4.1 Why manage your information?

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To deal with the volume of literature that you must read and refer to, you will need to develop an effective information management strategy.

Imagine.

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 number you needed for that quote and you can't find your date due slip to identify that book you used which you returned this morning.

Having an organised approach to the storage and retrieval of this information can save both time, and frustration.