Comps Q3 in process August 8, 2010
Posted by thinkphd in : CMP9200B , trackbackI skipped Q2 and began work on Q3 right after finishing Q1. The Q3 scenario put me as a consultant to a firm in the service industry that needed to implement a quality program. It took a while to research quality programs and start the paper. I am almost finished - I just have to do the intro and conclusion.
I usually write a skeleton intro and then work on the paper, then come back and re-do the intro and conclusion. I find that this pulls my paper together. If I write a heavy intro first, I find that my papers are stiff and narrow. It also takes me forever to get going on the meat of the paper!
My brain is tired tonight from working hour after hour on these papers. I feel pretty good about my time schedule right now. It’s day 8 of 49 and I have one question finished and another almost complete. My plan is to finish Q3 within a few days (after work) and then start research on question 2. I will start writing Q2 (which is about quantitative and qualitative research) beginning next weekend.
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I stumbled upon your blog via a Google search. I too am enrolled at NCU in the Ed.D program for Leadership. I just finished 9102E and am getting ready to start 9103QNE. I have received an A in every class (11 classes total) so far with 100% on the majority of my assignments at NCU. However, I hear many horror stories about 9104. So far I feel like NCU work has been incovenient at times, but not difficult. What are your thoughts on 9104 as compared to the other classes you have taken?
Thank you.
John-
For me (PhD, I/O Psych) 9101,2 & 4 were easy… it was 3 that killed me. Then again, after 2 undergrad and 3 graduate stats classes, I still feel like I have a middle-school level grasp on it… thus, on the advice of a former mentor at NCU, I’m hiring out my statistical analysis portion of my dissertation!
9104 depends ALL on your mentor. I got a good one and she was all the difference. Tough, but helpful
bjm