Roadblocks
What do you do when you hit a roadblock?
It seems that I’ve been living with roadblocks throughout the course. I began well and had a lot of pre-course work completed, a lot of writing done about the topic, and a clear problem statement. Still when it came to writing during the course I hit roadblocks. [...]
Templates
Having completed the gap analysis project, I am now onto drafting the real deal literature review. This is the complete story of my literature review so far, as such this needs to adhere to strict UOP formatting standards. Which, are the same standards as the American Psychological Association or APA.
UOP encourages doc students to look [...]
Telling My Story
Dan posted a wonderful comment the other day about the gap analysis project. His advice was to think about the discussion as the story thus far. This helped me think about the project in a different way and echoed the advice of my mentor who understands that this literature search is never completed and continually [...]
Getting my Ducks in a Row
Just a moment ago I posts about herding the squirrels of my literature to support my gap analysis project. Whatever happened in that blog post helped me to more formally identify the gap and now I thought I’d share the results:
The problem is workplace training is not designed to engage members of the Millennial [...]
Herding Squirrels
I am trying to get this Gap Analysis assignment going and I just cannot get my mind focused. I’ve got so much literature running through my mind, that pulling it together to support the premise of my gap analysis is like herding squirrels.
The gap is basically that current instructor-led training trends are inadequate for the [...]
From Papers to Discussions
I am still reading and taking notes for the coming Gap Analysis paper. I had concerns that the literature review needed to be complete my reading prior to writing the paper. The thoughts stem from 2 years of conditioning in classes where the reading is completed prior to writing.
My mentor’s advice on this paper indicates [...]
Keeping an Eye Out
I am continuing to read through the literature, quite a lot of literature. I am finding that abstracts are often poorly written, meaning they do not convey what might be really happening in the literature. Don’t get me wrong, they loosely allude to the content, but don’t seem to capture the real message contained within.
So, [...]
A Flashlight in the Dark
As I approached DOC/722 I began to envision the class as a dark box in the curriculum. Professors and other students would hint at the course but nothing that provided a comforting familiarity with what the course was about.
I am fortunate that my mentor sent along the syllabus and some working documents in advanced. Even [...]
1/2 Way There…Kind of
Oops, forgot to publish some postings about what is happening in the black box of DOC/722. Shame on me. This course was one of those I was trying to figure out well ahead of the need to do so, and for me not to keep shedding light on the course for you all is not [...]
And the Winner is…
A recent post about how to store and manage the vast amounts of literature I am accumulating, Zotero vs. Binders, got a great comment from Dan. He commented,
I think you can forget the idea of paper. You will find that 90+% of the resources you chase in your lit review are electronic. [read the [...]