Continuing Academic Success WEEK 5 Essay

Thesis Statement and Informal Outline Worksheet

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Thesis Statement and Informal Outline Worksheet

In this course, you will write a 700- to 1,050-word comprehensive Continuing Academic Success essay, due in Week 5. The Week 5 essay will help you apply what you learned in this course and take responsibility for your success in your education and your career. Please review the requirements for the Week 5 assignment to become familiar with the instructions. Starting this week, and in the weeks to come, we will be building upon an outline with a thesis statement, subtopics, and research to assist in your final paper.

For this week, using the Center for Writing Excellence resources, provide your thesis statement and begin creating the informal outline for your Continuing Academic Success essay assignment. Include the following in your outline this week:

The benefit of creating educational goals, including at least one educational goal you set for yourself
Your personal learning style, as well as how knowing your learning style can help you be successful as you move through your program and career
How the writing process can help you advance your education and career
Which resources, inside and outside of the university, you can use to help you reach your goals and make you more successful
An explanation of the importance of academic integrity

Thesis Statement

This is a one-sentence summary of your Week 5 paper that will be based on the bulleted items above.

Demonstrating good writing skills will help in improving your daily life. Setting and pursuing educational goals will eventually bring academic success if a student has the required motivation, with a combination of knowing what resources are offered to them along with following their personal learning style.

Informal Outline

Each topic below should be a main idea for a paragraph that might be in your Week 5 assignment (see bulleted items above). Each support point should be something that you plan to write about that relates to the corresponding topic.

Topic 1: The benefit of creating educational goals, including at least one educational goal you set for yourself
1. Support: Creating an educational goal allows a person to feel obligated to complete a task. Also, it serves as a constant reminder of where you will reach if you continue to push yourself a little more every day

1. Support: One of my educational goals is learning how to better manage my time. I tend to wait until the last minute to get my homework done. I am hoping that before this class is over that I will have mastered how to set a daily schedule and follow it. Setting goals will help to reduce stress, and help give a little free time.

Topic 2: Your personal learning style, as well as how knowing your learning style can help you be successful as you move through your program and career
1. Support: Knowing and Understanding your personal learning style allows a student to get a head start in maximizing their learning potential. For example, I am an auditory learner which means I must do things like reading a statement out loud for me to fully comprehend what is being taught.

1. Support: Using your best personal learning style will make learning experiences less frustrating and stressful. It also allows a student to use their own strategies to learn.
Topic 3: How the writing process can help advance your education and career
1. Support: The writing process will help you in your academic career especially when typing up an essay because it allows the writer to correct all improper grammar, and spelling before they submit their final draft.

1. Support: The writing process will help students become better writers. The different stages act as a blueprint for students to follow so that they can be successful.

Topic 4: Which resources, inside and outside of the university, you can use to help you reach your goals and make you more successful

1. Support: Outside resources that I will be using to help me reach my goals will be the APA website, because it will show me how to properly cite my information, and have information about plagiarism.

1. Support: I will be using the Center for Writing Excellence, because they have writing tips, on formatting an academic essay. The university library contains books, and media resources that will assist me in being successful.
Topic 5: An explanation of the importance of academic integrity
1. Support: Integrity means doing what is right when no one is looking. When submitting assignments to the university students must use their integrity by making sure that their assignments are original and not contain any plagiarism.

1. Support : Having a good reputation within the university will allow people to trust each other. Showing academic integrity will also teach students how to act in a professional setting, and will help them reach their professional and academic success.