Personal Philosophy of Student Success Paper
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your learning of key concepts and techniques related to college and life success, to evaluate your own patterns of thought and behaviors, to reflect on your strengths and progress as a college student, to identify your goals for improvement, and to articulate your current beliefs about college and life success.
Format: Submit your assignment as one integrative essay, typed, and identified with your name, date, and title (Personal Philosophy of Student Success). The paper should be double spaced, 12-point font, and with1-inch margins all around. Use Standard English (instead of language used for email, text messaging, personal journaling, or casual conversation). There is no minimum or maximum length; the essay will be graded on the quality and clarity of your answers. As a general guideline, you should expect to write approximately three 250-word pages.
How to Prepare: Review your textbook, Active Reading Logs, all worksheets provided in class, your assigned journal entries and summaries, notes you took for the class, and any other personal journal entries related to your college or life experiences.
Essay Topic: Using your critical thinking skills, evaluate your current preparedness for college study, based on the concepts and skills (the eight choices of successful students; study strategies) covered in this class. Please incorporate all of the following in your essay:
• Based on your learning in this class, as well as your own life experiences, what do you personally believe are the most important factors that contribute to college and life success? Please explain your answer.
• Identify your individual strengths and discuss how they can help you with academic and career success. In what areas do you need to improve and why? What success strategies have you implemented? Please evaluate your progress with the strategies you have tried. Which strategies would be useful for you to implement now?
• What are you learning about yourself (i.e., what insights have you gained) as a student and about the college experience?
• To dive deep in describing your experiences, please utilize the 4 E's you learned about. Study Skills: - Writing on page 339
Review the grading criteria PDF and rubric PDF to understand how you will be graded on this assignment. You will need to create this paper in your word processing program and send it to your instructor as an attachment. The Personal Philosophy of Success Paper is due at the end of Lesson 6. You are encouraged to begin working on this paper as soon as possible.