TESU LIB495 - No help, withdrawing from it. Thoughts?

[Merlin]

Keep in mind that the capstone is considered the culmination of your experience in the degree and the reason they list specific requirements (which are only now enforced) is to ensure that you are properly prepared for the course.

From the instructor's perspective, if you are ready to take your capstone you should already know what a thesis is and how to create a literature review; you should have learned that in your english composition courses and it should have been reinforced through the academic writing you did in your upper division coursework. From the instructor's perspective, at the capstone level they are not there to teach you, they are there to measure your ability to synthesize the knowledge you gained from your degree as you prove you are ready to graduate through completing the capstone assignments. It is not a course on paper writing, so they shouldn't be teaching you how to create the elements of your paper, only to help guide you on the path you should take while doing so.

From the student perspective, I always like to see an example of what good looks like to make sure I'm on the right path, but when asked my mentor told me that they don't have anything like that, but if I am there, I should already have all the tools needed to be successful, I just need to apply them. And he was right, I just was so used to having my hand held in the courses I had taken previously that I wasn't taking charge and taking my own approach to the problem that utilized what I already knew, combing what I learned in school and what I learned on the job. Once I did that, I was able to excel.

That all said, there are a number of excellent guides on how to write academic papers on YouTube if you need them. Plus folks here on the forum will obviously be able to contribute.

You don't need to withdraw, just do some extra research to refresh your english comp knowledge and get back to it. I'm sure you'll do fine!