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You all have been SOOO helpful! The secular composition 102 class that I am taking is all online quizzes and there is no assigned paper. It is just meant to prepare you to be READY for an assigned paper.

Which is perfect, because the Genesis class through WVBS is unlikely to teach much general education paper writing skills, but will expect them anyway.

The Luther Rice and other videos combined with your help is filling in the gap the between these two classes and I think I will be able to write a good paper.

I have no idea where this is all going, but I have learned to skid along by the seat of my pants, and be prepared to be amazed at what happens next.

 

I should be using those footnotes and bibliographies to find more resources, right? I learned to do this in my paralegal studies. If I could find just ONE applicable case, even if it was old, I could then use it to find better cases.

 

I cannot afford to take the highway right now. I am living in poverty and dependent on free classes. I need to submit and be respectful and learn what I can for as long as I am allowed to learn what is possible to learn from that person.

 

I still have access to the library of my old college, even though I am not currently enrolled. They are too disorganized to have cut me off, yet. I am struggling to make the secular data bases narrow to religious articles, but am getting better at it. All the Bible colleges just direct students straight to Atla and I do not have that.

I have the usual community college stuff, which is crippled versions of the stuff that private universities have fuller access to.

I have access to JSTOR search and sometimes can take the search results elsewhere to access an article, but sometimes not. I have access to the Gale religion database, but it is small.

My eyesight is so bad that I have "student" and "print disabled" status and that gives me unlimited access to Bookshare and Books to Borrow. That is where I have a strength.

Bookshare is amazing.
My Bookshare | Bookshare

There are some treasures in here from the 1960s and 1970s, scattered among the public domain books, and I have unlimited access to them.
Books to Borrow : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive

And I have e-books through multiple libraries. I have library cards. LOL.

Unless I pirate articles, full access to good databases is not something I have right now. I have people that can break through paywalls for me, and I know how to do it myself sometimes, but ... I am becoming less and less and less comfortable doing that. I am changing from who I was. What I can do, and what I am willing to do, are not the same thing anymore. It is frustrating, knowing what I can do.

 

I have an ebook copy of

Kibbe's Topic to Thesis and Vyhmeister's Quality Research paper

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BDW9AFE/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

https://www.amazon.com/Quality-Rese...A/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

The Luther Rice videos are quote good. I am watching them slowly and them supplementing topics covered quickly with other videos.

I have the secular composition 102 course and plan to complete that, but material that is written directly for Bible colleges is more helpful. Every time I watch another Luther Rice video, I understand the WVBS assignment better.

In the past 24 hours, I have learned a lot!

 

I thought I had bookmarked this site, but it appears that I didn't. Thank you for taking me here again!

I'm getting a bit more savvy and need to try some sites again, but last time, although I have access to ebsco and proquest, I do not seem to have access to their religion databases. I ran into this with the paralegal stuff. I spent hour after hour trying to follow videos that did not apply to our crippled databases and then had to spend more and more hours convincing our professors that we did not have the access they thought we did.

Other students gave up before I did and just thought they were too stupid and lazy to do the work. I am a special kind of stupid and kept at it, and eventually got e-mails from the providers confirming that our access is not the same as more expensive subscriptions. I just have to decide first how stupid I want to be about this.

And sometimes there is an easier way. For the paralegal, I managed to get myself almost free membership to a private law library, by implying that I might sue them, but that is story for another day.

The most direct route is not always banging your head on the wall directly in front of you. I have learned that. Sometimes I can find a hole just small enough for me to crawl through.

 

rlvaughn, thank you so much for taking the time to respond! I tried to include the most concise but accurate summary of the video as possible, knowing some people would not have time to watch it.

The class I am taking is the Genesis class through WVBS, but I am watching the Luther Rice videos and anything I can find to learn basic research writing skills for Bible college term papers. I agree that I can learn from playing by the rules even when frustrated. I am willing to do that. I really like the Genesis class and I want to be respectful. The opportunity to take the class is a privilege.

I am really starting to understand the big picture more. I really was confused. This is not the same as writing a paper for a secular community college. I will be my rudest and most ignorant when I don't know what I don't know, and I know I am still at that stage.

I am jumping into the deep end again like I did with paralegal and with cybersecurity. I learn fast, but I am pretty stupid when I start a new project. And rude when I don't mean to be.

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond. This really helps and I will add bits of it to my notes.

Everyone, I managed to find access to Academic Search Complete!!! It has a philosophy and religion database and includes full articles. It is not Atla, but I can practice all aspects of searching for articles, and I should always be able to find at least SOMETHING usable, so that I can include at least one article. I am really excited about this.

In the past, when I had restricted access to what everyone else was using, it forced me to be more creative and it meant my paper was different from the norm: sometimes I was rewarded for that. I have enough now! And enough is enough.

Now I just need to buckle down and WORK.

 

Ziggy said: ↑
Just one hint about quoting: use quotes to *support* your position, but not to advance the discussion on its own.

This is something that I have never been taught to observe or do one way or the other. This is something I need to observe, even more than try to master at this point. It is a new concept and way too advanced for my previous teachers to have devoted course time to.