Howdy all, I bit the bullet and after much research, I decided on Grand Canyon! Wow, I did not expect BSN schools to be like used car salesmen--hounding me by emails and phone calls. Rather impressed on how Grand Canyon sort of left me alone, but at the same time kept in touch.
Commence my first class Sept 30th, excited, yet very nervous, as I'm not a big fan of school, LOL! I did extremely well on my Associate degree, graduated back in 2009 from Northern Virginia Community College. We shall see.
Would love to hear from past and present Grand Canyon RN to BSN students.
That was me/my instructor for this last class, and I don't know how they would know. I tried to use the GCU APA template for my first paper and yes, it worked, but from then on out I've been having trouble with my Word program (someone told me I might have a macros virus??), but seriously it started when I used that thing, I tried to open the doc the prof sent back graded and my whole computer froze up (on a Sunday night no less, and I lost 4hrs worth of work on the paper I was writing). So, I ditched that and used PERRLA for the rest of the class and never heard a word. Also, regarding PERRLA, I saw your note earlier about copy/pasting from an old paper into a new one - remember - PERRLA has that freaky little bug that sometimes when you paste a ready-made ref in there it deletes all the ones you had in there!! Plus, then it's not in your database, it's just on that one paper. I love it, but it has its quirks
@PrismRN, I read on these GCU threads a lot of students use PERRLA and Gramerly I think it's called. I will be purchasing both. Anything that will make life easier I want LOL
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@PrismRN, I read on these GCU threads a lot of students use PERRLA and Gramerly I think it's called. I will be purchasing both. Anything that will make life easier I want LOL
I use both, and both have their quirks and only are as good as the user. Grammarly doesn't always catch typo's, but it works well for comma's and passive sentences.
As Prism said, PEERLA is grumpy about copying over papers. I found out that with a the cap just the other day. It didn't like me doing a simple paste over and I lost some of my references. I got smart after that and used the abstract as my empty spot on my paper, (haven't written it yet) and did the citations and let PEERLA handle the references. It was nice though to go back simple click and have PEERLA do the rest.
@BeautyonDuty awesome. they took about 1 week to get all of my official transcripts back. and all i need is the core nursing classes, nothing extra. Hopefully youll be the same way and we can do this together!
LOL, Wizard of Oz!!! I am with you, don't do that to me! Or how about adding to the assignment (not on rubric) in the CLC, then gets it assigned to him, and then they are asking for help on how to do it?!!!!?? You guys are making this all better!!!
That was me/my instructor for this last class, and I don't know how they would know. I tried to use the GCU APA template for my first paper and yes, it worked, but from then on out I've been having trouble with my Word program (someone told me I might have a macros virus??), but seriously it started when I used that thing, I tried to open the doc the prof sent back graded and my whole computer froze up (on a Sunday night no less, and I lost 4hrs worth of work on the paper I was writing). So, I ditched that and used PERRLA for the rest of the class and never heard a word. Also, regarding PERRLA, I saw your note earlier about copy/pasting from an old paper into a new one - remember - PERRLA has that freaky little bug that sometimes when you paste a ready-made ref in there it deletes all the ones you had in there!! Plus, then it's not in your database, it's just on that one paper. I love it, but it has its quirks
I hurried and downloaded one of the templates on my desktop, and like you have had problems ever since. If you can view and then make up your own template you are further ahead. I also noticed that you cannot not change their margins and other features, it is like they are locked and your assignment looks off kilter...at least to me!
I too use PERRLA and Gramerly. The other thing I did the first 2 classes was get a tutor. Sooner rather than later make an appointment, I had not wrote a paper in YEARS, the girl nearly choked when she saw my first assignment. When I had my second appointment with her, it was a completely different paper. I had no idea what a thesis statement was, and I'm still not that great with summary statements either. Usually I'll let someone read the paper and ask them what they got out of it. All the little tricks, but what works for one may not work for another. Oh also realize that everything that the tutors tell you is not 100%, still do your reading. If something seems to good to be true (copy a section into Google)...it usually is someone else's writing.
I hurried and downloaded one of the templates on my desktop, and like you have had problems ever since.
I read on the internet how you can tell if you got the macros virus: If every time you try to open a document (from somewhere out there from the web) if it doesn't just open it, but instead wants you to "save" it somewhere on your computer before you can see it. And yep, that's exactly what's been happening to me ever since I downloaded that dumb template. This little laptop of mine has been perfect for years and has gotten me all the way through 6 GCU classes without a hitch - then that. The "fix-it" 's on the web are waaaay too complicated for me, I guess I'll do what tokmom did and haul it down to Best Buy for a look-see.
I also noticed that you cannot not change their margins and other features, it is like they are locked and your assignment looks off kilter...at least to me!
That's the whole point of their template (even though I think it has a bug in it), you can't change the margins or anything, that's a good thing! APA is stricter-than-strict about certain things, and margins are one of them. If you're not going to use the cootie-ridden template, definitely buy PERRLA, it's only $30 - best $30 you'll spend in your travels through GCU
That's the whole point of their template (even though I think it has a bug in it), you can't change the margins or anything, that's a good thing! APA is stricter-than-strict about certain things, and margins are one of them. If you're not going to use the cootie-ridden template, definitely buy PERRLA, it's only $30 - best $30 you'll spend in your travels through GCU
I'm going to quote/answer myself here because I guess the template doesn't have bugs. I just called IT support and asked and they said no way, their templates are like Fort Knox (which I would assume is true) so I guess my issue came from somewhere else darnitall
I'm going to quote/answer myself here because I guess the template doesn't have bugs. I just called IT support and asked and they said no way, their templates are like Fort Knox (which I would assume is true) so I guess my issue came from somewhere else darnitall
That makes me feel better because that is what I have been using in this second class! I had been copying and pasting to my template. I use a Macbook and haven't noticed any issues so far with the template. That's another reason why I switched to the template because if I tried editing any little thing on the PERRLA reference page something would go haywire and I couldn't figure out what I was inputting wrong in the generator which is why I was manually editing the references. How did you become PERRLA proficient?
I too use PERRLA and Gramerly. The other thing I did the first 2 classes was get a tutor. Sooner rather than later make an appointment, I had not wrote a paper in YEARS, the girl nearly choked when she saw my first assignment. When I had my second appointment with her, it was a completely different paper. I had no idea what a thesis statement was, and I'm still not that great with summary statements either. Usually I'll let someone read the paper and ask them what they got out of it. All the little tricks, but what works for one may not work for another. Oh also realize that everything that the tutors tell you is not 100%, still do your reading. If something seems to good to be true (copy a section into Google)...it usually is someone else's writing.
@Winterwhite, I am so not shy about asking for help in any way shape or form. So those tutoring services will be getting used quite often LOL I myself have not written a paper in forever and have no clue whats an abstract, thesis, or summary statement is. How embarrassing LOL:unsure:
You guys are making this all better!!!
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@PrismRN, I read on these GCU threads a lot of students use PERRLA and Gramerly I think it's called. I will be purchasing both. Anything that will make life easier I want LOL