Week 1 - Intro to my blog

I started out in this process about a month late.  You see, I got sick midway through the fall term and I was able to succeed in 3 of my 4courses but I fell flat on my face with the fourth.  That course was called Thesis I.  I was bombing along just fine until late October/November when I moved houses and work and life pressures mounted.  I got sick.  I was in the hospital.  Suffered though many, many visits to different medical professionals.  The prognosis was that I was suffering from anxiety and that I needed to try to reduce stress.  So rather than take a full course load in the winter term I elected to just take a couple. 

I chose to take Thesis II even though I did not complete Thesis I.  My professors graciously allowed me to submit the outstanding assignments that I missed in Thesis I and as a result I get to negotiate a grade – something I wasn’t sure I deserved but was truly grateful for!

 

So I spent January working hard on the outstanding stuff that I should have done the previous term – namely, the literature review, theoretical framework, and methodologies section for the final paper that encompasses the bulk of Thesis II.  With HUGE help from my family and friends I was able to collect a whole bunch of research and wrote a 12-page, 2700-word literature review on my topic, the emerging use of Problem-based learning in police education.  For this paper I had 15 sources cited.  Not all were scholarly but the vast majority were.  Some were from online magazines and different police service websites.  I knew that for my final paper I would be looking into reading a lot more peer-reviewed work! 

I didn’t quite get the methodologies and theoretical framework articulated, but after chatting with R&E I am confident I can put something together.

Milestone met – Submitted Lit review on January 23^rd.  Theoretical Framework draft submitted Jan 27^th.