Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 in your course textbook and review your previous work in this course, as well as your instructor’s guidance and lecture materials. This assignment is an opportunity to develop a stronger sense of your goals while continuing to hone your writing skills.
Review the Model Personal-Professional Narrative Assignment Download Model Personal-Professional Narrative Assignmentas you begin drafting your paper.
Also, download and use the Personal-Professional Narrative Essay Template Download Personal-Professional Narrative Essay Templateand review the Understanding Your AssignmentLinks to an external site. resource for additional assistance developing your essay.
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Your paper will have an introduction paragraph that will include your thesis sentence and identifies your chosen major or career path and a conclusion paragraph that summarizes the main points and resolves the narrative.
Additionally, your body paragraphs should address these ideas:
Describe an experience that significantly shaped your identity and informed your personal ethos.
Use clear and descriptive language to evoke a sense of the gravity of this experience.
Interpret the events that brought you to your choice of major or career path.
Why is it meaningful to you?
Is it your passion or is it more practical?
If it is a practical choice, how do your passions feed into it?
Provide an example of one of the major challenges to achieving your goal.
Discuss a challenge rooted in your S.M.A.R.T. goals, the particular skills you will have to demonstrate a mindset challenge, or some combination of both.
Analyze how your personal ethos prepares you to overcome the preceding challenges(s) in this journey.
The Personal-Professional Narrative paper,
Must be three to five pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA StyleLinks to an external site., including a separate title page.
Must utilize academic voice. Do not overuse the first person (I, me, mine, my); do not use the second person (you, your, yours). See the Academic VoiceLinks to an external site. resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph.
Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing Introductions & ConclusionsLinks to an external site. and Writing a Thesis StatementLinks to an external site., refer to the Writing Center resources.
For this assignment, resources are not required. However, if you do any additional research, you must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your PaperLinks to an external site. guide.
If resources are used, must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center.
See the APA: Formatting Your References ListLinks to an external site. resource in the Writing Center for specifications.
Carefully review the Grading RubricLinks to an external site. for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
