...186ACC Coursework Assignment 2 A Reflective Essay Student ID: 186 ACC Coursework Assignment 2 – A Reflective Essay Introduction In this assignment I will be drawing upon what I have learnt in this semester’s module in order to better reflect on my strengths and weaknesses by supporting it with work and research conducted throughout the course. In conjunction with this I will be drawing upon the skills audit I conducted to help me create an action plan that addresses my individual needs and help develop a broader skill set. This would therefore make me more confident in communicating effectively in different situations. The course aims and objectives will be used with questionnaires, quizzes and other formats that were used to evaluate myself and preferential styles to show my strengths and weaknesses in this essay. In the introductory week we undertook a skills audits that helped us identify what our individuals learning styles where. I quickly learnt that I had similar results from both the audits and questionnaires which hinted that I am more reserved and observant. I was also told that I am very insightful and can express my own opinions well. The skills audit showed that I am more of a reflector/theorist (Online Skills Audit). Strengths and weaknesses: Main body I believe that all of my strengths are rather similar and therefore helps me conform very strong arguments which boast depth, analytical flare, and descriptive...
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...Writing Your Graduate School Application Essay Generally speaking, there are two types of application essays for graduate school: the statement of purpose (SOP) and the personal statement. (Refer to FAQs to find out how the two types are different.) Both types let you convince the admissions committee that you are a good fit for the program and can contribute to the department. Although different graduate schools may ask you to answer different prompts, most ask that you write no more than a two-page application essay. The application essay is difficult to write because you must pitch your candidacy to a few department faculty members who read through hundreds – or sometimes thousands – of other essays. In this handout, you will learn how to show these busy readers that you will contribute meaningfully to the university and their department. 1. Relate your past and present experiences to the future. In their application essays, many applicants make the mistake of underemphasizing the future. But it’s important that you show how your past experiences have informed your present work, and how your present work can be extended to the future or raise new research questions. Admissions committees assess many qualified applicants based on whether their research will reflect positively on the university and their department. Committees will think your past and present work is relevant only if it relates directly to your plans for the future. If you don’t know exactly where your current...
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...with heavy loads of assignments that he/she has to face in order to complete a class to graduate and be successful in the future. For example, a student can set up a success plan such as academic goals to ensure having a certain G.P.A and maintaining it throughout the school year. By doing this he/she has to be motivated to get good grades in assignments, quizzes, and tests. As for me, becoming a better writer means to have my point clear enough so that a reader can comprehend what is written. In order for me to become a better writer motivation is important in order to improve my weaknesses. My main weaknesses in writing are making sure my sentence structure is correct and putting my thoughts together so that they flow. Having motivation to improve will help me look at my sentences and take a step back so that I can make sure they are right. Also, so I can see where my mistakes are being made. It will also help me to do brainstorming exercise when writing papers so that I can make sure my thoughts are executed on paper as well as they are in my head. The first step in becoming a better writer is knowing what needs work and understanding that even our strengths can use some improvement as well. My strengths include good thoughts and understating what I am writing about. My thought process is good when writing and I can easily put together a good essay with good thoughts....
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...of your life. In this essay I will be stating things about my personality, learning style, skills & aptitudes, interests, values, desired lifestyle, educational goals, and career goals. Through it all most people say my personality is my best trait. I’m a very outgoing person, I’m always ready to have fun. Mellow describes me because I’m laid back, quiet and I like to observe the things around me. I wouldn’t describe myself as being a genius, but I would say I’m smart and open to learning new things. I’m a spontaneous person, while with me you’ll never know what I’ll do next. My learning styles are very unique, I’m a logical thinker but at the same time I’m a visual and auditory learner. I’m a logical thinker, because I think and analyze everything I do before I do it. In the classroom when I’m being taught I understand the concept if I see examples. During lectures I can understand the materials just by listening. All of these styles of learning are the way I understand and gain knowledge. How I’ll live my life in the future is based on my skills and aptitude. I’m a great thinker I think outside the box. I’m a great counter one thing I don’t play about is my money. I’m a mood changer if someone is feeling a little under the weather I’m a funny person, I put smiles on people faces. My biggest goal in life is to be great, it in all aspects. I like a lot of things in life, but it’s only a hand full of things I’m actually interested in. My most focused interest...
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...Career Planning Essay According to Werner and DeSimone (2009), career planning can be defined as “a deliberate process of becoming aware of self, opportunities, constraints, choices, and consequences 2) identifying career-related goals and 3) programming work, education, and related developmental experiences to provide the direction, timing, and sequence of steps to attain a specific career goal. Each individual has unique goals that he/she has to meet which helps them in exploring career options and obtaining certain skills that will help them in future. Below are three main questions (taken from Human Resource Development textbook) based on self assessment, future goals and plan to achieve the goals. The questions include 1) where do I want to be, 2) Where am I now, and, 3) How am I going to get there. The questions are discussed in detail based on my career planning. Where do I want to be? The part of this essay discusses about my goals, objectives and preferences about career development. In order to develop career, a person should be able to outline the personal professional preferences. Following are my goals and objectives: * What are my short-term career objectives? * Increase my education/ experience * Strengthen my engineering skills accomplish the currently assigned jobs * Increase in job responsibilities which will eventually strengthen my position at work * What are my long-term career objectives? * To be an Engineering...
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...STARS ESSAY Finding out what job you want to spend the rest of your life doing is a very important part of everyone’s education experience. You get asked the question when you are a freshman in high school, all the way up to when you are out of college. For a lot of people the answer to that question is hard and tough. We understand our strengths and weaknesses but lack the knowledge about all the options we really have. When you’re young all you care about is what job makes the most money. It is a very good idea to have a good income but you need to do something that you enjoy and that will make you happy. You can narrow down what you want to do by just thinking about different things such as your work environment and your option of working in teams or doing your job all by yourself. In this essay I will discuss my personal plans for what career path I am choosing and what information I have found to help me get there. My current educational status is General Studies at Faulkner State Community College. I chose to do this so that I can get my basic classes out of the way and find out what particular classes interest me. Also, attending a two year college will help me get more one on one time than a big university and I think that I will be able to focus more. I want a career that I can go anywhere with and be successful. I would like to do something where I can work indoors and something that has some science based material in it. My plan is to transfer either to South Alabama...
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...Integration and Reflection Essay May 2014 Term July 24, 2014 Assignment: Prepare a reflective essay addressing the following items: 1. Descriptions of how you feel you improved your knowledge, skills, abilities, and yourself in this session through this course. 2. Evaluation of the work you did during the session for the class and explanations of ways you could have performed better. 3. Topics you have identified that you did not understand or were not successful in trying to implement and suggestions you may have about how to improve the course material on those topics. 4. Ways you might measure the future effects of what you have learned in this course or your future progress/improvement. 5. State whether you achieved the course outcomes Integration and Reflection Final Essay As I started this course I came into it with a basic understanding of project management, but not much experience with system acquisition and system development concepts. As the course progressed I saw my knowledge increase in all of these areas, including the areas I had already had some hands-on experience with. The new portal design also helped tremendously as we could all form various discussions among ourselves and feed off each other for knowledge and experience. Now that we’ve come to the conclusion of this course it’s time to take a look back and reflect upon the information presented and describe how I’ve integrated this newfound knowledge into my own personal toolbox...
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...single income families are even no income. This long-lasting economic effect has knocked on the door of home and affected my family as well as other hardworking citizens. One writer stated, “Too often unemployment affects not only unemployed individuals but also members of their immediate families.”(Aber, 1997). In this essay I will discuss how unemployment has affected my family, how my family is coping with this issue and what positive movements the economy is working on to recover from this problem. What is your thesis? This is a persuasive essay, so I am expecting a point of view. Merely implying is not clear enough. You must be as clear as possible. In January 2013, my husband was laid off from his job with no warning. His supervisor approached him after his shift and was told him that the company was downsizing and his position was no longer needed. The supervisor gave him his last paycheck, and encouraged him to file for unemployment benefits. Unemployment benefits will not equal half of his income when he was working. The struggles in finances became stressful to my family because I am the only one bringing home a steady income. My income along with unemployment income took care of all the bills, but we are struggling to buy daily necessities, like food, clothes, and household needs. It has been nine months that my husband last worked, and we are still...
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... Dear Reader The past few years of my life was spent in search looking for the gateway of dreams, I was lost for a good bit of time not knowing what to do with my life and even more lost on how to go about finding it. I found the path to the gateway of dreams with the help of my brother and the rest of my family. Po Bronson says "We are all writing the story of our life. It's not a story of conquest. It's a story of discovery. Through trial and error, we learn what gifts we have to offer the world and are pushed to greater recognition about what we really need." And the question that follows this had me thinking about my future, that question was “What Should I Do with My Life?” I really know how important it is for the introduction to any paper is. I want to make my essay introduction good by giving the reader something to think about as they read my story for epic technology, I want the reader be able to connect there thinking to the following paragraph, giving the reader something to think about is also a good way to get there attention-maybe some my readers can connect to (Every one at some point gets lost looking for there dream and some never find it) and this will lead into my next paragraph. Starting with the title of my story (The journey For Epic Technology) I will tell the reader about my journey and how I ended up on it and the places it will take me. I will also be telling my readers what I should be doing with my life, and the gifts I have to offer the...
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...cell in my body. When I found out that I needed an English class for my degree plan, I considered not going to college at all. Dramatic right? This is because I knew that essays go hand and hand with any English class like side effects with chemotherapy. And just like the cancer treatment, the pain needs to be endured in order to advance to the next level. So that is what this course was for me -- a 5-week chemotherapy session. I have never had to go through chemo so I do not have the credibility to compare the two, but just allow me to exaggerate my disdain for writing. Throughout this course, I repeatedly participated in the essay review process, was forced to learn how to form a proper thesis, and was introduced to graphic organizing techniques that will, unfortunately, actually help me out in the future. The essay review process is almost as boring as it sounds and is self-defined in its name. Writing an essay consists of brainstorming ideas, creating a rough draft, reviewing the rough draft, then submitting the final paper. We learned this early on in English class and as a matter of fact, we had to submit a “bio” of who we were on the first day of class. Now as I look back at that...
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...Reflective Essay When I first started in English 1101, I expected this class to be very challenging, very difficult and very demanding. My experiences have been very challenging with learning to research topics through different resources such as the internet for online books, journals, newspapers, and handbooks. Now I think about the correct organization of my paper, using correct grammar, and making sure that my formatting style meets the criteria that the Professor has requested per MLA or APA guidelines. I learned what you have to consider about the rhetorical situations such as the purpose, the audience, the stance, the genre, and the media/design. I learned this by thinking about what I believe concerning certain things and how I expressed my emotionally views. Through persuasive writing, my focus was to persuade my readers or audience to believe as I believe. In the future, I can apply it to other essays and research papers by remembering all the rhetorical situations. I have learned to remember when I am writing that my focus should be about writing for an academic audience. I learned this by understanding that when I write papers for academic reasons, my audience is my Professor. In the future, I can apply it to any research and essays that I write by remembering the different styles of writing for my audience....
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...working harmoniously with my hand’s every movement, signifies the constitution of a composition. Throughout my freshman year, sounds of my fingers drumming the keyboard has filled up my days, but it’s not just about how my essays were written on a computer. It is about how these repeated actions developed who I am as a writer, along with the quality of my work. I truly believe my writing has blossomed this year because I have finally imposed a step-by-step process of writing that works for me. In addition, I was able to fully connect with the literature I read, resulting in the reveal a new writer’s personality within me. Moreover, I am beginning to understand the piecemeal writer burgeoning inside me throughout the essays I have written in english class and how it has shaped my compositions through the different strategies I took, style, and organization. Writing essays in the beginning of the year was somewhat troublesome, to be honest, because my style, organization, and strategies for writing, were a complete mess. As a result...
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...Entering this course, English 214, the perspective that I had is that it would not be as different from my prior English class, English 114. As I began to learn about the course and its structure, it did become clear that both English classes would not be too distinct from one another. For instance, this course would also revolve around your own topic of choice, in which throughout the semester your writing would be based on that topic. I personally like this structure of the class, since I am able to grow as a writer, reader, and critical thinker while studying and researching a topic that interests me. My understanding of writing at the beginning of this course, I believed that the only way that I was going to improve would be through...
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...make. This essay will reflect what personal responsibility means, and the relationship between personal responsibility and college success, identification of two areas of improvement as a college level student based on personal, professional, and academic circumstances, specific strategies discovered through research to improve within these areas, and a preliminary plan to practice personal responsibility in my education. Personal responsibilities are the decisions I make on daily basis. Whether they are as simple as getting out of bed in the morning or to exercise or not these are very important decision I choose to make. I have two very important responsibilities that I must take care of each day, my two children. I have a little boy who is six years of age and a little girl who is two and both very active children that I need to be alert and able to keep up with throughout all of their sports and activities. Kyle, my son asks me why I am always on my computer and I said I am going to school to improve our future and hopefully I am showing him that it is never too late to continue our education and I am always telling him no matter how old you are we can continue to learn. I want to set a good example for my children through these responsibilities as discussed so far. Therefore, I must wake up in the morning and care for them. Also to improve my unhappiness and my health exercising is extremely important so I can be there for my children. In correlation with my personal responsibilities...
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...Accepting Personal Responsibility for my Education GEN/200 November 11, 2013 Accepting Personal Responsibility for my Education Success is built on courage, hard work, and personal responsibility. Far too often failure is blamed on outside influences whereas the true answer lies within oneself. My success as a University of Phoenix (UOPX) student is my personal responsibility and I realize that I need to manage my time more efficiently as well as become more organized in my personal life to become a successful student. “Personal Responsibility is the quality or state of being accountable, an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or account for ones actions.” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2013). I must take responsibility for my work, my family, and my education to be lucrative and successful in my degree program. I will have to create a plan to create a balance of these important parts of my life. This will have a great deal to do with getting my priorities in order. I need to take inventory of the important things in my life (my husband, my children, my grandson, my business, and my undergraduate degree) and learn how to let some of the not so important things go if necessary. Although it has been a top priority in the past always to attend every event my children have been involved in I realize that with them being adults now they will be able to understand if I have to miss a minor event from time to time in order to accomplish finishing an assignment...
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