College students might be interested in the Assignment Calculator on the University of Minnesota Libraries website. You plug in the starting and due dates for an assigned paper and indicate the department. The onerous and, for most, haphazard job of researching and writing the paper is broken down into component tasks with their own due dates. You can even have email reminders sent. For each task, there are helpful links tailored to the department the class is in.

http://www.lib.umn.edu/help/calculator