National Qualifications Online - Core skills

Dividing up the work 1

Once you have decided on a project for your group, you will need to make a plan to divide up the work and make sure it gets done.  There are many ways of doing this.  One way is to think of your project as a story that hasn't happened yet, and then write your plan like a story.

When journalists are writing articles for the newspapers, they use the following six words as reminders to make sure they don't miss anything out.

Who What When Where Why How

For example, if a burglary has been committed, the journalist would want to know the following.