PERSOAL ESSAY ASSIGNMENT: Select one specific event in your academic or professional career when you used one of the employability skills below. DIRECTIONS: Create a 500-800-word personal essay in w

PERSOAL ESSAY

ASSIGNMENT: Select one specific event in your academic or professional career when you used one of the employability skills below.

DIRECTIONS: Create a 500-800-word personal essay in which you:

1. Explain the scenario you have chosen.
2. Describe the chosen employability skill and how it was used in the scenario.
3. Describe the benefits or shortcomings of using this skill and how it contributed to any success.
4. Describe how it could have been used differently to achieve greater success.
5. Describe what you learned about yourself throughout this scenario.
6. Minimize mechanical and stylistic errors.
7. Complete the reflection questions listed below.

B. Reflection Questions

DIRECTIONS: Below your assignment, include answers to all of the following reflection questions.

1. Consider the early stages of your writing process. What brainstorming and prewriting activities did you engage in to compose your narrative? How did they help you begin formulating your ideas? How do you anticipate that these steps will make the writing process more productive? (4-5 sentences)
2. Consider the skill you chose as a topic. Why did you pick this particular skill? What about it are you looking forward to exploring as you work on your later assignments in this course? (3-4 sentences)