DQ

Using the criteria shown for each of the sections of your Proposal in the Dissertation Proposal Template, how would you evaluate your work to date if you were completing the Proposal Rubric on yourself? Why?

I uploaded to the system, chapter 1 proposal draft. I worked on it for a week since the beginning of week 5 while trying to get the revised prospectus draft in. For this discussion post and being honest with myself and looking at this from a third neutral party, I would give myself the doctoral learner a score of 2 out of 3 on the criteria for the chapter 1 proposal. Using the templates have been easy to keep in line with the formatting and APA style, however the problem is addressing all of the sections in chapter

1. Being 6 days late with the revised prospectus draft and looking at the first prospectus draft, there were many missing sections and based on the conversation with the chair (Dr. Danielle Rowell), my literature review in the prospectus is not a literature review but an annotated bibliography. This honestly shocked me, because up to this point, I have not heard this before, and I am glad to hear this now, since I am so close to the end of this doctoral journey, that playing catch up and not screwing up the dissertation is important to me.

Although the templates are informative and what needs to go where and what needs to be addressed in each section of the prospectus and proposal, I again feel that for the prospectus draft, a criteria score for each section being a 1 is fair. However, for the proposal chapter 1, score of maximum 2 out of 3 would be fair. Playing catch up and being 6 days late with turning in the revised prospectus draft did not help, however with the proposal, chapter 1, working on it for one week , I believe with time and effort the score of 2 out of 3 is fair. However, it is up to the reviewer and their perspective.

I look forward to the phone call conference on August 14, 2017 at 3p.m. (Pacific Standard Time). I believe now all conference calls have moved to zoom. On an aside note, I wish Grand Canyon University would connect me with students in Southern California, who I can discuss and seek out help, in addition get some moral support.