Assignment 1: You’ve Got This: Planning for Success
When you leave your first term course, you will enter into your program of study. You want to make sure all necessary variables that impact your future success (including both strengths and weaknesses) are identified and solutions proposed. Planning cannot prevent a tragedy, but it can prevent a single event from snowballing into a disaster. What steps have you taken to make sure that you will have access to the Internet regardless of weather conditions?? Have you reviewed your program of study? Do you know what the add/drop timeline looks like? Have you spoken to your advisor?/p>
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Make sure that you pay attention to the details when you are first starting out. Students are often proud of multitasking, but when you first start a program online, you need to provide your full attention to the task at hand. Encountering curriculum that is both professionally and personally useful is transformational. Walden University wants to help you discover that school can be an oasis of serenity once you fully engage with the learning process. Knowledge, once applied, is fully yours. Each component of the courses you are taking will be applicable to your professional and personal life in some manner.
It is hard to learn when you are sad, hungry, angry, or exhausted, so it is important to take care of your basic needs as part of your plan for success. Making a space to learn, and creating a ritual around learning can buffer it from the other parts of your life. It is like finding a sunny place for a plant to thrive. You need to be in the zone to learn, and you might have to take some time to think deliberately about what that space would look like.
Being a Walden student can mean learning on the go. Your success plan will follow you throughout your time at Walden. The course materials that you’ve created this term will serve as a reminder for you of the brave steps you are taking to complete your undergraduate degree. You’ve got this, and we’ve got your back the whole way!
In this Assignment you will develop a Personal Success Plan that includes both short-term and long-term goals.
To prepare for this Assignment:
· Review your Weekly Journal entries, your initial Discussion posts, Assignments submissions, and Self-Assessments.
· Consider how you have grown or changed your perspective throughout this course.
· Were you surprised by any of the scores you received? What resources will you use this term to enhance your skills in the areas that you’ve covered?
· Review the Personal Success Plan Checklist and Worksheet (Word document).
· Watch the Scholar of Change videos.
Assignment 2: Reflection: Looking Forward: Your Promise to Yourself and to Walden
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” data-hasqtip=”35″>perspectives to the learning environment. Your Walden community will provide support to you, just as you will provide support and different perspectives to the other students in your classes. Positive social change is a tenet of our mission, and your work at Walden. The Walden Writing Center is just one resource to support you as you move through your program. Some resources will help you think about “positive social change” or the ways that the work you do can have a real impact on the world around you, from the most personal all the way to the global level.
(http://waldenwritingcenter.blogspot.com/2013/10/how-to-write-for-positive-social-change.html)
” data-hasqtip=”50″>Positive social change is a pillar of Walden’s philosophy. An important part of any first term course is reflecting on what the start of your educational journey means while defining your goals and how you plan to achieve them. Considering the reasons you enrolled in this university, your place in it and in your world, and how you’ll function as a human who will learn in a technological world, are important to your success.
This week is an opportunity to further reflect on the last six weeks by adding onto, revising and proofreading the A rough draft is a draft of an assignment or paper you submit for faculty feedback and review.
The thesis statement is the brief articulation of your paper’s central argument and purpose. You might hear it referred to as simply a "thesis." Every scholarly paper should have a thesis statement, and strong thesis statements are concise, specific, and arguable. Concise means the thesis is short: perhaps one or two sentences for a shorter paper. Specific means the thesis deals with a narrow and focused topic, appropriate to the paper’s length. Arguable means that a scholar in your field could (or perhaps already has!) disagreed.
Strong thesis statements address specific intellectual questions, have clear positions, and use a structure that reflects the overall structure of the paper. Read on to learn more about constructing a strong thesis statement.
For more information, see http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/writingprocess/thesisstatements
” data-hasqtip=”51″>rough draft you began in Week 4. Writing is a process, not a one-time event. Strong writers know that the proofreading and editing involved in revising their work is crucial to producing their best final draft. You’ll be practicing these skills as you finalize your own draft of the Sometimes professors ask students to reflect on personal experiences within a paper. Most of the time, however, including examples or anecdotes from your life can weaken your academic writing. Instead, use academic sources to introduce your topic and then help support your assertions. If your professor does ask for personal experiences, limit them to experiences that directly relate to the argument in your paper. In this assignment, you will be asked to reflect on positive social change.
(http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/undergraduate/top10writingtips)
” data-hasqtip=”52″>Reflection Assignment.
To prepare for the Assignment:
· Review the instructions in the Week 4 Assignment 2 area. Pay particular attention to the four Parts and ensure you have addressed each of these sections: Today I am, I Promise To…, How I Will Become Part of the Walden Community, and A visual representation is a photo, illustration, painting, etc. or multimedia object that provides insight and understanding of a concept or event.
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· Access the A rough draft is a draft of an assignment or paper you submit for faculty feedback and review.
The thesis statement is the brief articulation of your paper’s central argument and purpose. You might hear it referred to as simply a "thesis." Every scholarly paper should have a thesis statement, and strong thesis statements are concise, specific, and arguable. Concise means the thesis is short: perhaps one or two sentences for a shorter paper. Specific means the thesis deals with a narrow and focused topic, appropriate to the paper’s length. Arguable means that a scholar in your field could (or perhaps already has!) disagreed.
Strong thesis statements address specific intellectual questions, have clear positions, and use a structure that reflects the overall structure of the paper. Read on to learn more about constructing a strong thesis statement.
For more information, see http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/writingprocess/thesisstatements
(http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/undergraduate/top10writingtips)
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· Review the comments and feedback your instructor made for your Week 4 A rough draft is a draft of an assignment or paper you submit for faculty feedback and review.
The thesis statement is the brief articulation of your paper’s central argument and purpose. You might hear it referred to as simply a "thesis." Every scholarly paper should have a thesis statement, and strong thesis statements are concise, specific, and arguable. Concise means the thesis is short: perhaps one or two sentences for a shorter paper. Specific means the thesis deals with a narrow and focused topic, appropriate to the paper’s length. Arguable means that a scholar in your field could (or perhaps already has!) disagreed.
Strong thesis statements address specific intellectual questions, have clear positions, and use a structure that reflects the overall structure of the paper. Read on to learn more about constructing a strong thesis statement.
For more information, see http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/writingprocess/thesisstatements
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(http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/undergraduate/top10writingtips)
” data-hasqtip=”56″>Reflection Assignment A rubric is a scoring tool that clearly states the performance expectations for an assignment. A rubric identifies the components of an assignment and the standards or expectations at the different levels associated with each component, at different levels of mastery. Rubrics can be used to guide and assess a wide variety of assignments.
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” data-hasqtip=”57″>Reflection: Revision Guidelines document found in this week’s Learning Resources is the heading given to all the readings, media, websites, and documents you will use in the course.
In scholarly writing, you will often use direct quotations or paraphrased material from the learning resources to support your research and strengthen your academic argument. Although direct quotations are generally not as strong as paraphrases, they can add evidence and substance to your scholarly argument. Do keep in mind, however, that some instructors forbid direct quotations for some assignments.
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Assignment Instructions:
By Day 7
” data-hasqtip=”15″>Submit a 3- to 5-page paper that that represents a finalized version of your Sometimes professors ask students to reflect on personal experiences within a paper. Most of the time, however, including examples or anecdotes from your life can weaken your academic writing. Instead, use academic sources to introduce your topic and then help support your assertions. If your professor does ask for personal experiences, limit them to experiences that directly relate to the argument in your paper. In this assignment, you will be asked to reflect on positive social change.
(http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/undergraduate/top10writingtips)
” data-hasqtip=”58″>Reflection Paper Assignment.
Make sure all four sections are included, you have a clear structure with an introduction and A conclusion serves as a mirror reflecting back on the introduction, and it should provide the reader with a clear overview of the ideas that were introduced in the essay. For more information on crafting a compelling conclusion, review the material below.
http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/writingprocess/conclusions
” data-hasqtip=”38″>conclusion, and that you’ve met all AWE guidelines, as well as any expectations described in the Week 6 Sometimes professors ask students to reflect on personal experiences within a paper. Most of the time, however, including examples or anecdotes from your life can weaken your academic writing. Instead, use academic sources to introduce your topic and then help support your assertions. If your professor does ask for personal experiences, limit them to experiences that directly relate to the argument in your paper. In this assignment, you will be asked to reflect on positive social change.
(http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/undergraduate/top10writingtips)
” data-hasqtip=”59″>Reflection Assignment A rubric is a scoring tool that clearly states the performance expectations for an assignment. A rubric identifies the components of an assignment and the standards or expectations at the different levels associated with each component, at different levels of mastery. Rubrics can be used to guide and assess a wide variety of assignments.
” data-hasqtip=”39″>Rubric. Include your A rough draft is a draft of an assignment or paper you submit for faculty feedback and review.
The thesis statement is the brief articulation of your paper’s central argument and purpose. You might hear it referred to as simply a "thesis." Every scholarly paper should have a thesis statement, and strong thesis statements are concise, specific, and arguable. Concise means the thesis is short: perhaps one or two sentences for a shorter paper. Specific means the thesis deals with a narrow and focused topic, appropriate to the paper’s length. Arguable means that a scholar in your field could (or perhaps already has!) disagreed.
Strong thesis statements address specific intellectual questions, have clear positions, and use a structure that reflects the overall structure of the paper. Read on to learn more about constructing a strong thesis statement.
For more information, see http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/writingprocess/thesisstatements
” data-hasqtip=”60″>rough draft either as a separate file or at the end of your final draft to demonstrate the revisions you’ve made.
