After viewing this first session, it is evident that it's "crunch time" Like never before, its time to take the ball and run with it! As Joe has covered the issues that many students may be facing personally, although "life happens", we students must keep our hands on the wheel and drive this EMDTMS course home! From the overtone, I know that the course is requiring us to hunker down as we stand on the precipice of graduation. As the instructor, Joe is willing to work with us (which I am comforted in knowing), but as he discussed, at some point he has to draw the line. And that line is being drawn this month...!
Questions, concerns, and clarifications were addressed about how to interact in this course as compared to LMO. Although there are many similarities, the major focus in MAC is on preparing for month 12. The majority of the discussion was focused on the Literature Review and what is required. Utilizing the checklist, videos, and reviewing sample LR's that have been approved, will be to our advantage as we prepare to turn it in by Sunday. What was most helpful was the distinction provided about the difference between writing it as a research paper verses a synthesized version of what scholars' prior research found. Apparently, these details were provided because many students are writing the paper as though it were a research paper, instead of reporting previous research in the area of their topic "in their own words". Even more, the review is not a presupposition of what the writer's projected answer will be, but of what is "out there" in terms of previous research. It should not be opinionated or developed in such a way that it "proves" my point. Basically, the writing should be hypothetical in content until proven by our own personal action research in the end.
Personally, these details provided in this session have helped me tremendously because I have never written a review of any kind like this before. I'm glad to have developed aquaintance with how to produce such writing. And I'm done, by the way! "Praise the Lord!"
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