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

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A capstone will NOT require conducting original research, and since TESU isn't a research institution, there wouldn't be anyone to supervise it anyway.

When I went through TESU a couple years ago, mine did. I wound up constructing and running a survey, and interviewed several subject matter experts. I feel pretty strongly that was mandated and not me just overachieving, lol

My cohort got little instruction. They expected us to already know how to do a capstone, and just do it. I was totally lost the entire time. I did google searches for completed capstone projects, and haunted other colleges looking for their help sections on how to do it.

I was fairly successful (want to say it was 94%) but I can't say if I was pitched a softball, or my work actually was rigorous enough. Reading dozens of other papers, it at least *looks* like theirs, lol

Rereading my post before I push send, I can't stress enough how lost I felt. And, how little feedback and how long it took to get the sheepherder / class facilitator / whatever he was called to respond to even the most basic questions, which most certainly were NOT in any of his provided data. (shrugs)

And, the feedback that came with each segment was canned. No question. I think, one time it didn't even really address what I was doing LOL.

All I can offer OP is, a- hang in there. They can't eat you. b-be brief. I know about word counts, I'm telling you academics love conciseness. c-the thesis is the heart of the paper. Every individual paragraph somehow ties right back into it. If they don't mesh, adjust fire on the thesis. d-seriously, go light on filler words. Get someone else to read your stuff, and maybe add another point instead of puffing each paragraph.

Edit - yeah, they do. TESU has an IRB, and because my survey involved people, I sent them a thing. https://www.tesu.edu/about/institutional-review-board