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2008-01-29, 11:59 PM
If your report has different sections then this might be a good starting point to break things down:
Report of My Work Project
-> Introduction
-> Past Projects
-> Objective of this Project
-> Work done in this Project
-> Discussion and Outook
Then you might brainstorm about what to write in the chapters and put these things as sub-tasks:
-> Past Projects
-- -> Bob's project on nuclear power plants
-- -> Alice's project on nuclear waste disposal
Finally, you would end up with a quite detailed outline of your report. You then probably need to reorder things a bit (i.e., you might want to write the introduction last), set sequential/parallel flags as necessary and start writing following the "Available Actions" shown in the Context View.
If you get stuck during writing because you need to do some research on a particular point, need to wait for a report to be turned in by some college or so, then make a sub-task for that - it will be captured in the system and you can go on doing other things (e.g. writing a different section of the report):
-- -> Bob's project [sequential]
-- -- -> Wait for Bob's report @waiting
-- -- -> Finalize "Bob's project" section @mac
To clarify: The idea is that each outline item is a single action, i.e. each section is a single thing that has to be done (and I wrote "Bob's project" instead of writing "Write section about Bob's project" because I find it nicer to see the outline of the report). If you then actually work on this task and find that you can't complete it in one run, then obviously it somehow breaks down into a group of actions that need to be done to accomplish "Write section about Bob's project": You need to wait for his report and then write the section.