Organize document or presentation clearly in a manner that promotes understanding and meets the requirements of the assignment.
In this project, you will write a short essay that reflects your
belief or passion about a particular part of your professional
experience. This project will help you refresh your writing skills to
prepare for the rest of your graduate program. Organizing complex and
divergent thoughts to write a single page requires prewriting, perhaps
an outline, and thinking about the mechanics of writing an essay
paragraph by paragraph. That means starting with a topic sentence,
adding supporting sentences, and concluding with a sentence that
provides a bridge to the next paragraph. Your essay is intentionally
limited to 500 words to engage you in the structural process of writing.
There are four steps that will lead you through this project. Most steps of this project should take no more than two hours to complete. Begin by watching the video above, which introduces the project as it might occur in the workplace, and then continue with Step 1: Review the This I Believe Radio Program.
When you submit your project, your work will be evaluated using the competencies listed below. You can use the list below to self-check your work before submission.
For the next step, you will prepare to write.
Step 3: Write Your 500-Word Essay
Now that you’ve done some prep work and have looked at some examples, it’s time to write your essay. Following the APA formatting guidelines as described in the APA Style Guide, 6th edition, set up your paper defaults and create a cover sheet. You will double-space this essay, as you will all your work going forward unless directed otherwise. You will not cite external sources in this personal essay so you will not have a References page. You will also not be required to write an abstract for this project.
I’d like to know what you value and what’s important to you about your profession, your industry, your career, or your education. This is challenging! It requires a level of introspection so deep that no one else can do it for you. Use the following suggestions, adapted from This I Believe,as a guide:
There are four steps that will lead you through this project. Most steps of this project should take no more than two hours to complete. Begin by watching the video above, which introduces the project as it might occur in the workplace, and then continue with Step 1: Review the This I Believe Radio Program.
When you submit your project, your work will be evaluated using the competencies listed below. You can use the list below to self-check your work before submission.
- 1.1: Organize document or presentation clearly in a manner that promotes understanding and meets the requirements of the assignment.
- 1.2: Develop coherent paragraphs or points so that each is internally unified and so that each functions as part of the whole document or presentation.
- 1.3: Provide sufficient, correctly cited support that substantiates the writer’s ideas.
- 1.4: Tailor communications to the audience.
- 1.5: Use sentence structure appropriate to the task, message and audience.
- 1.6: Follow conventions of Standard Written English.
For the next step, you will prepare to write.
Step 3: Write Your 500-Word Essay
Now that you’ve done some prep work and have looked at some examples, it’s time to write your essay. Following the APA formatting guidelines as described in the APA Style Guide, 6th edition, set up your paper defaults and create a cover sheet. You will double-space this essay, as you will all your work going forward unless directed otherwise. You will not cite external sources in this personal essay so you will not have a References page. You will also not be required to write an abstract for this project.
I’d like to know what you value and what’s important to you about your profession, your industry, your career, or your education. This is challenging! It requires a level of introspection so deep that no one else can do it for you. Use the following suggestions, adapted from This I Believe,as a guide:
- Name your belief—If you can’t name it in a sentence or two, your essay might not be about belief. You are writing an essay, not a list. Focus on one core belief, which you will explain, define, and develop through the essay.
- Tell a story—Be specific. Take your belief out of the ether and ground it in specific events of your life. Consider moments when your belief was formed or tested or changed. Think of your own experience, work, and life, and tell of the things you know that no one else does. Make sure your story ties to the essence of your professional or educational philosophy and the shaping of your beliefs. Tell me how you reached your beliefs, and if they have grown, what made them grow. Your story need not be heart-warming or gut-wrenching—it can even be funny—but it should be real.
- Be positive—Please avoid preaching, editorializing, or finger-pointing. This essay should not be about your views on the American way of life, democracy, or capitalism. (These are important but for another occasion.) This essay should explain what you live by, what you DO believe, not what you don’t believe.
- Be personal—Avoid speaking in the editorial “we,”
the projecting “you,” or the accusing “they.” The project is “this I
believe,” not “this everyone believes,” “this my company believes,” or
“this Americans/Russians/
Scientologists believe.” Make your essay about you. Speak in the first person. Read your essay aloud to yourself several times, and each time, edit it and simplify it until you find the words, tone, and story that truly echo your belief.
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