Sam Elman-Ranking Priorities

This week in CLS105 i decided to use my favorite strategy RANKING PRIORITIES. The reason that choose this was because i have many assignments, projects and finals coming up. For me being able to rank them and see which is most important for me is very helpful. The two courses that i used for this was WRT105 AND COU101.

Ranking Priorities is a strategy where you can rank anything in order for what is most important. This strategy also helped me organization skills.

The reason that i choose to use WRT105 was because i have my last huge paper coming up and there is a lot of steps that i need to do in order to accomplish it. My rankings went like this. 1. Researching topic. 2. outline. 3 rough draft. 4 final draft. 5. Essay. This has really helped me stay focused on the task.

The reason that i choose COU101 was because i have my last big project and my final coming up. So there is a lot of work left to do and i need to be organized to manage both things. the Rankings went like this. 1. make a study guide. 2 study. 3. start project. 4 finish project. I found this to be very rewarding for me and i hope it works out.

Since i am an Aural Learner this was very rewarding for me because i was just able to make a list of something and not have to make a diagram or chart which i usuallly have trouble with.

Looking back on this RANKING PRIORITIES it has worked for me all year long and it is my favorite strategy.

Acronym's By Andrew Zelin

This week in CLS 105 I experimented with the acronym strategy in my accounting class and my strategic management class. I chose to use the acronym strategy because I am a visual and aural learner. Seeing and picturing things helps me learn much more easily than other methods.

To implement the acronym strategy in accounting the first step I took was to look for a group of terms I have to recognize. I found the relevant costs and benefits section. This section consists of four terms. The terms are as follows: avoidable costs, irrelevant costs, sunk costs, and relevant costs. The next step to implements this strategy is to take the first letter of each term and create an existing word to better help me remember these terms. A word I found all these terms creates is 'AIRS'. Now when I take the exam and I am required to identify and recognize the relevant costs and benefit's I remember 'AIRS' and I thus am able to piece together which terms belong.

Due to the benefit I received from this strategy in an especially difficult class like accounting, I decided to experiment with this strategy again in my strategic management class. I used an acronym word to help me identify the barriers to entry into an industry. The barriers are economies, capital, differentiation, access, and government policy. The word I found from the first letter of each term was 'CAGED'. From now on when I am required to identify the barriers to entry in an industry I immediately think 'CAGED' and each term easily comes to me.


In conclusion, I found the acronym strategy all in all extremely effective. It is easy to use and it does a phenomenal job with helping me remember key ideas of any given topic. I have to credit my visual/aural learning style for this. If this wasn't my learning style, I fear creating acronym's wouldn't be nearly as useful.