Liberal Arts Capstone

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I’m not sure I would even want an expert in my topic. That sounds like double trouble. The mentor is supposed to mentor on composition, format and mechanics. Not so much the subject matter. I had Black, I don’t really recommend him unless you like chicken scratch from top to bottom. He’s very hard to please. On the other hand he always says to call him any time for assistance, if you like doing that sort of thing.

He's hard to please because he is incredibly precise with APA, and wants to help his students be the best possible writers. Because of him, when I went on to my master's degree, I had multiple professors comment on how on-point my APA was, and how concise my writing was. Neither of those would have been the case had I not had Dr. Black. And mind you, I had done a lot of writing, for decades, before having Dr. Black's class.

It really depends on what you are after.  If you want to learn how to write at a graduate level and to deeply understand the importance of clarity in your writing, Dr. Black is an outstanding mentor.  I suppose if one doesn't give a crap and just wants an easy class then he's not the best.  But in my book, it's really a shame to turn down the opportunity to better one's skills.  The assistance he offers by phone is awesome, and he is literal that it can be any time; one of my friends who also took his class needed to talk to him and the only time was when he got off work at midnight CA time.  Dr. Black is in NC, and told him to go ahead and call him at 3am!  They had a great and helpful conversation.