February LIB-495 Capstone

[TexasTink]

I thought I would post some updates and thoughts as I progress through the course.

First of all, as others have suggested, it's really helpful to have an idea for your Capstone before you begin. I had all my sub-questions ready to go and was just trying to nail down my main question. (I know that sounds backwards but my two main ideas for the topic used almost the same set of sub-questions.) I nailed that down within the first couple days and had my first paper done by the end of the first week. My first paper ended up being 7 pages, including a title and reference page. I didn't write a whole lot of quote a lot of sources and it turned out fine. I turned it in a week early, and the mentor didn't grade them until a week after the due date, so I've waited 2 weeks for my grade. It has been driving me crazy - so that's a word of caution for people who turn things in early!

I'm now almost done with paper 2, which isn't due until next week. (I'm working ahead due to a work trip) It's taken me a full two weeks to do this one as it's a ton of work. The vast majority of my sources are from books, so I feel like that may have made it more intense as I've had to scan through multiple 500 page books to find relevant material. I also didn't organize my notes well and that's added a lot of time and effort that isn't necessary.

So far, I've found the forum posts to be pretty easy. Those haven't been graded yet though so I don't feel I can comment much on specifics.