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re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews
Posted on 12/4/18 at 7:35 am to baroqen
Posted on 12/4/18 at 7:35 am to baroqen
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Hmm. I notice McLaughlin now has a section of MADM 701. Anyone ever take it with her? I'm really pretty pleased with the excellent pacing and reasonable course load of her MADM 760, so I'm seriously thinking of taking it with her instead of Heller.
I just don't want to choose her section only to find out it's set up totally different than 760, lol. Unfortunately she isn't interactive, but I frankly don't have a ton of time to waste on a ton of useless writing. Her MADM 760 writing demands appear to be more about quality than quantity... as long as you don't mess up your citations... lol.
I'd roll that dice. I had Williams for MADM701 and got not interactive with a crap ton of busy work.
MADM760 with McLaughlin has been a good class. No real surprises and she's curved when there were. Her format is level and right sized. You just lose the collaborative aspect of working with classmates (that's fine with me given my experiences teaming up with people who write at a 3rd grade level) and the interactive nature that some profs bring.
Now I just wish my coach posts M6 grades so I can gauge on how much I need to study for the M7 quiz.
This post was edited on 12/4/18 at 7:36 am
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Posted on 12/4/18 at 8:25 am to TigerDragon435
Read my review of the class, the "A' strategy in particular. I discovered (a bit late) a pretty big tip for studying for the test and it's in the strategy. I studied less but still did better.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 9:12 am to BeckyBLU
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Do you find that the synthesis paper directions in Moodle, directions on the template and directions on the video say different things? I finished reading and listening to the video and I was confused.
The information is spread across many locations in the style Meeks likes: drawn out, wordy, and not concise.
The gist of it all is:
* Follow the rubric. 4000+ words for an A, 2500 words to avoid failing, not including title page, abstract, references, tables, etc. 250 word minimum abstract to avoid failing. 11+ references for an A, 5+ to avoid failing. Many other minimum ranges are listed as well. History says the higher the word count, the better the grade.
* Fail the paper, fail the course, regardless of your current grade.
* Use your skill builder content from the course in your paper as long as you can make the paper flow. Any skill builder content recognized by TurnItIn will be ignored by Meeks.
* No maximum TurnItIn threshold. He claims to use TurnItIn to see if you've copied content from outside of the skill builder content you submitted without citing it.
* Have a theme. Make the paper flow. Tie together content from both books and the videos. Don't write a data dump or a book report.
* Ensure grammar and spelling are good. No red/blue underlines in Word. Use 12 point Times New Roman, single-spaced. Use proper APA citations. There's a conflict where he says "centered page numbers" in his instructions, but the template he created has them on the right, so I'm working off the template.
* The template was created because he claims students had trouble writing the paper in the past. It's an optional guideline. Sections can be moved around or dropped completely.
This post was edited on 12/4/18 at 9:22 am
Posted on 12/4/18 at 9:17 am to TigerDragon435
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I'd roll that dice. I had Williams for MADM701 and got not interactive with a crap ton of busy work.
Seconded. Williams MADM 701 is a writing and grammar fiesta. English class disguised as an HR class. "Coaches" running the show and an invisible instructor. Tons of useless busy work combined with tests filled with poorly edited copy and paste content that requires you to literally memorize content from the textbook line by line. I only got one A through all of the tests.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:38 pm to GeauxUF
Just for fun, regarding Meeks' paper:
APA guidelines state that the minimum length of an abstract should be 150 words and a maximum length of 250 words.
The Meeks rubric states that an A-level abstract is 250-700 words. The APA guidelines are considered B-level work.
APA guidelines state that the minimum length of an abstract should be 150 words and a maximum length of 250 words.
The Meeks rubric states that an A-level abstract is 250-700 words. The APA guidelines are considered B-level work.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 1:56 pm to GeauxUF
Where are people seeing McLoughlin is teaching a 701 section - people who scheduled a TBA section? The only section I see is a TBA for AP2?
Posted on 12/4/18 at 2:43 pm to jrduck143
Anyone have any thoughts or knowledge on
Koksal, Ahmet
ISDS 702
Koksal, Ahmet
ISDS 702
This post was edited on 12/4/18 at 2:45 pm
Posted on 12/4/18 at 3:24 pm to hollywd
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Anyone have any thoughts or knowledge on
Koksal, Ahmet
ISDS 702
Amazing class, one of my favorite instructors in the program. See my review from October in previous posts.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 3:38 pm to hollywd
Take it, it was my favorite course.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 8:13 pm to GeauxUF
quote:
Just for fun, regarding Meeks' paper:
APA guidelines state that the minimum length of an abstract should be 150 words and a maximum length of 250 words.
The Meeks rubric states that an A-level abstract is 250-700 words. The APA guidelines are considered B-level work.
Im in full panic mode. I am almost done my paper, but he makes me/us feel like we are incompetent already. I can't tell if I'm turning in A level work or not.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 8:25 pm to GeauxUF
Do you have The Syllabus from that course?
Posted on 12/4/18 at 8:47 pm to hollywd
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Do you have The Syllabus from that course?
I don't, but here's my review from 10/19:
ISDS 702 (Koksal, Data Analytics, and general elective):
This is a basic statistics class. I think this course should be a hands-down prerequisite for ECON 705, ISDS 710, and possibly FIN 701. I learned a ton in this course. Follows the Read/Math Focused template (Weekly Reading/Course Material, Weekly Practice Problems, Weekly Zoom session, Weekly Exam), with the exception that there are fantastic weekly video lectures from Dr. Koksal in place of textbook readings. Dr. Koksal does an outstanding job breaking down very complex mathematical concepts. There is also a weekly discussion forum with additional practice work that is optional but helpful. Exams are weekly, available for the entire week, and proctored using Proctorio. Dr. Koksal may be my favorite professor in the entire program. The workload is light to moderate.
This post was edited on 12/4/18 at 8:51 pm
Posted on 12/4/18 at 8:57 pm to bsramzy
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Im in full panic mode. I am almost done my paper, but he makes me/us feel like we are incompetent already. I can't tell if I'm turning in A level work or not.
Don't panic! A lot of what he says is a scare tactic more than anything else. Just follow the rubric. You're close to being done.
I just now wrapped up my first draft. 6000+ words. I'll proofread, edit, and get this sucker submitted tomorrow.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 9:04 pm to GeauxUF
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Don't panic! A lot of what he says is a scare tactic more than anything else. Just follow the rubric. You're close to being done.
I just now wrapped up my first draft. 6000+ words. I'll proofread, edit, and get this sucker submitted tomorrow.
Did you fill in each section? or did you just use the parts of the template that you needed?
Posted on 12/4/18 at 9:05 pm to GeauxUF
Looking to pair ISDS 702 with Fin 710. Has anyone taken Fin 710 with Hsieh. Any feedback is appreciated.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 9:06 pm to bsramzy
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Did you fill in each section? or did you just use the parts of the template that you needed?
I dumped one section completely. I also substituted a different section as my intro.
This post was edited on 12/4/18 at 9:09 pm
Posted on 12/4/18 at 9:25 pm to GeauxUF
There are a few sections that just make it impossible to flow properly.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 9:40 pm to bsramzy
quote:
There are a few sections that just make it impossible to flow properly.
There are. I moved a few around to fix the flow of my paper.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:23 pm to jrduck143
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Where are people seeing McLoughlin is teaching a 701 section - people who scheduled a TBA section? The only section I see is a TBA for AP2?
Yes, I did schedule a TBA for that class, just in case. I had gotten one with Heller originally, but thought I would roll the dice and hold a TBA (in AP1) to try for a different instructor. Not that he's bad (I've read good things about him), it's just that I was hoping for a more highly recommened option. Wasn't expecting McLaughlin, as I hadn't heard about her teaching this section before.
Last night when I checked my schedule to see if it had been updated, I saw her name and also noticed there were still a handful of seats open. Sorry they filled up since.
I'd keep an eye open, I'm dropping my Heller section now. Now I've gotta hope that a better option opens up for Acct 701. No one seems to know anything about Huang.
As far as the other question regarding ISDS 702 with Koksal... If you want to take that class, I don't really think you have any other choice in regards to instructor. He's the only one I've seen for that class so far. Reviews for him have tended to be either scathing (some, mostly older reviews I've read)or glowing (some recent reviews). That usually still means that he should be a decent teacher if you have the right abilities in the first place, but maybe not so good if you lack the base skillset. He's either taken previous feedback to heart and improved his class, or the class is too tough for people who shouldn't be in it in the first place, or both. Challenging classes make some people angry, despite the fact that this is supposed to be an accredited MBA program and not just a diploma mill.
This post was edited on 12/4/18 at 10:34 pm
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