Friday, December 28, 2012

COM220 Capstone CheckPoint


1.     Capstone CheckPoint

·         Write a 200- to 300-word response to the following questions:

o    Now that you have finished your research paper, what advice would you provide for students starting this course?
o    What would you do differently if you were just starting the course? On what would you focus more? On what would you focus less? Explain your answers.



            The one thing that I could best recommend for new students is to start their research paper in the first few weeks and not leave it for the last week. Utilizing the entire nine weeks to do the paper will not only give you the time needed to do proper research, but also will enhance your paper to your best since you did not try to cram it into one week or even one day.  Unfortunately if it was not for the varied assignments throughout this course that forced me to pay attention to my research paper before the ninth week, I would not have any part of my paper done ahead of time.  I am very good about getting things done on time but I often procrastinate as long as possible before something is due.  This is the one thing I would change, or at least try to change, if given to do the course over again.  I would definitely focus more on my research of my paper than I have given in the past few weeks.  Research is one of my strong points and something I love to do, so I can generally find what I want fairly quickly.  Since I know this already, I have lent my focus this nine weeks to my other class which is mostly knew to me and have been struggling with a little more than this one.  I can not say there is anything I would have focus less on; I believe I gave everything the most I could.  I did enjoy taking this class and would definitely recommend it for other students.  

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