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Struggling with college assignment

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Parsol · 27/06/2025 14:10

I am studying an online module in care. I already work in care but I need this for work and to meet qualifications.

I am struggling with the assignments.

For a few different reasons.

Sometimes my work can get very long and intense with hours and they are not considering the study that I have to do. I get tired easily too. Sometimes its getting far too much. The hours.

Every day and every week is different.

The last two weeks in July is going to be a nightmare for me with limited free time. I will have e to be live in and I will likely going get about 4 hours free during every day. The rest of the days will be work or sleep.

I know I went off track from my heading.

I am trying to complete an assignment.

I was given a case study of someone with Alzheimer's and I was asked to consider all aspects of holistic care as in physical, emotional, spiritual issues that the person might be experiencing.

At first I found it daunting but once I saw it again, I sat down and I brainstormed.

I was happy with my initial brain storming.

But I have now learned that, that's not going to be suitable because it has to be backed up with harved style referencing.

So I am exploring ebooks and websites and I am trying to research this.

I am trying to gather all of this stuff and bring it together and it's all just far far far far far too much a d it's happening in what is little free time.

It's all too stressful.

OP posts:
jpclarke · 27/06/2025 23:29

Also use Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and that should help you reference some of it.

ExpertArchFormat · 27/06/2025 23:31

IReallyLoveItHere · 27/06/2025 14:13

Chatgpt

Use it as a research tool not to write things for you but it'll find you the references you need.

You can also ask it to make sure you've got all the major points.

No! Chat gpt makes up fake references. The documents and articles don't actually exist.

TwelvePercent · 27/06/2025 23:45

Are work paying for your course? If so, it's in their best interests to give you time off to study - they don't want to be paying for a resit! Have you told your line manager you're struggling to fit it all in?

Re: referencing etc I've just completed a Diploma in a different subject.

Your brainstorming is a great place to start, use those key words e.g. 'Loneliness in Alzheimer's patients' to Google search for an article from a reputable org and/or an academic paper that supports each of the points you've made

You shouldn't need to be buying loads of books. I referenced articles from online blogs, industry orgs - often they will cite academic sources within their articles, which you can follow up on google to see if the paper supports your ideas too.

It's a LOT to expect you to do this cold OP. It's distance learning but you should still have a tutor to support you. Ask them for some guidance, or an extension if needed.

GluttonousHag · 28/06/2025 00:15

Catabogus · 27/06/2025 14:26

Do NOT use ChatGPT to suggest resources unless you check absolutely every single one exists and says what ChatGPT says it does. Otherwise you are quite likely to find it has “hallucinated” content and even titles/authors, and you will be charged with academic misconduct.

Absolutely this.

Preciousssssss · 28/06/2025 08:14

Can you say what the online provider is, @Parsol? (It really won’t make you recognisable!) ‘Major awards’ usually come from institutions with a physical presence and a tutorial structure.

How was thi provider chosen - by you or your employer? And is it free or paid for? By whom?

Original poster
Parsol · 28/06/2025 08:45

TwelvePercent · 27/06/2025 23:45

Are work paying for your course? If so, it's in their best interests to give you time off to study - they don't want to be paying for a resit! Have you told your line manager you're struggling to fit it all in?

Re: referencing etc I've just completed a Diploma in a different subject.

Your brainstorming is a great place to start, use those key words e.g. 'Loneliness in Alzheimer's patients' to Google search for an article from a reputable org and/or an academic paper that supports each of the points you've made

You shouldn't need to be buying loads of books. I referenced articles from online blogs, industry orgs - often they will cite academic sources within their articles, which you can follow up on google to see if the paper supports your ideas too.

It's a LOT to expect you to do this cold OP. It's distance learning but you should still have a tutor to support you. Ask them for some guidance, or an extension if needed.

Edited

Thank you for your reply and thank you to everyone who replied.

That's a good idea. To take my points google it to find something to reference.

Regarding work - I have some flexibility over the next week or two and I should be able to get some of this work done. My aim to to try my best and get this done.

However I do have other commitments too and this is going to be hard.

Then work has given me a gruelling schedule for the last two weeks of July. I will need to be live in a d the person I am caring for will be going to daycare for about 4 hours every day with a pick up and hour each way. So I will only get a break for 6 hours in a day for 2 weeks.

This isn't enough. Especially if my work is awake over night and I get no sleep.

They really aren't factoring in the work and the course that I need to do into these two weeks.

I find it all too daunting and stressful and anxiety producing.

If I get this assignment done over the next week, it will shave this stress away from me later on down the line.

I am struggling so much. I do have a book ordered and it should help me with what I am looking for but still. I won't get that until next week.

I am finding it all far far far too stressful.

I have all these thoughts and ideas floating around my head and no way to structure them.

ChatGPT did help me with a structuring idea so that helps.

OP posts:
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Parsol · 28/06/2025 08:46

I have many points made within the questions I was asked in my brief. I now need to turn them into paragraphs.

OP posts:
Crinkle77 · 28/06/2025 12:34

SEED paragraph structure can help turn your ideas in to coherent paragraphs. Just Google it and will come up

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