Many schools and universities have included coursework writing as part of their passing requirements. When professors assign coursework, they have two goals: educate and assess. First is to train a student’s ability to think, organize, research and write. The second goal is to determine whether a student has learned enough to pass a certain subject or course. Students usually are given a certain amount of time to complete a given coursework. However, during the duration of the coursework, a student must look out for some mistakes that may be committed.

• Bad topic. The first snare of coursework writing lies at the very beginning — when selecting a topic. Many usually get ambitious that they choose topic that they have neither interest in nor knowledge of. Many think that ambitious topics would impress the professors. However, many professors do not look at how grand is the subject of the course, but rather at how the information is laid out and written. Selecting a topic that is interesting to the student would be advantageous, since one would be eager to write the coursework until its completion. Meanwhile, selecting a topic that the student has knowledge of would allow him to maintain writing momentum throughout the coursework, as well as save time from doing excessive research.

• No plan. Plan the work and work the plan. Being disorganized will mean wasted time and effort and a messy coursework. One must organize the research and writing phases, placing deadlines for each task. A common mistake committed during the research phase is failure to organize the data and turn them into vital information. When the writing phase comes, one may scramble to locate the gathered information, resulting in waste of time and effort. During the coursework writing phase, meanwhile, an individual could compose an outline of what he will write. By writing an outline, a person will have a general idea of the flow and contents of the coursework.

• No originality. Some believe that they could just copy other’s written work, may be a masters coursework, and admit it as their own. Without proper attribution, the coursework become a product of plagiarism. Even copying a small part of another material would amount to plagiarism. Schools and universities see plagiarism as a grave sin to the academic world. They even installed systems that would detect plagiarism in any of the submitted coursework. An automatic failure awaits those who committed plagiarism.