KEMESHIA RANDLE, INSTRUCTOR

Unit 9: Paying It Forward

MANY ESSAYS ATTEMPT TO EDUCATE AN AUDIENCE ABOUT A TOPIC AND, ULTIMATELY, EXPLAIN IDEAS THIS AUDIENCE MAY NOT HAVE UNDERSTOOD BEFORE READING YOUR ESSAY. YOU CAN USE THIS

ESSAY STYLE—THE EXPOSITORY ESSAY STYLE—FOR PURPOSES SUCH AS INFORMING, PERSUADING, AND EXPLAINING. IN OUR

COURSE, WE WILL FOCUS ON THE INFORMATIVE STYLE OF EXPOSITORY WRITING. TO BE CONVINCING, ESSAYS MUST BE

DRIVEN BY CRITICAL THINKING AND ANALYSIS. THROUGHOUT THIS COURSE, YOU HAVE LEARNED ASPECTS OF EFFECTIVE

WRITING THAT WILL BE USED IN THIS FINAL PROJECT.

Expository Essay

Project Guidelines

750-800 words

double-spaced, with subheadings

Times New Romans 12 point font

Must be a Word document

Must be submitted by 11:59 pm EST on Dec. 20, 2011

The final project for this course asks you to imagine a scenario where you are a mentor to someone else.

You can choose the person you will mentor. You can be a professional mentor, such as in the workplace or

in a career situation like being an exercise and nutrition specialist who is helping someone who has

health issues. For this project, you will write up a plan of action for this person to follow. This plan of

action is not an essay, but it is more like a report with separate sections. The details of the sections of the

report are as follows:

Introduce yourself to your client: you will need to identify a person who needs help—this can be someone from history, fiction (books, television, movies), a celebrity, or someone from your life. Write an introduction to clarify who he or she is and why this person needs to embark on a helpful journey. (Unit 8 Scenario/Discussion)

Introduction

Introduce yourself to the client in an appropriate way. What this means is if you have an established personal relationship with that person, then you can be more personal in your introduction where you can tell him or her where you’d like to help out and why you think you can offer help in one area of his or her life. If you have a more professional relationship with the person, then keep the language on that level as well. No matter whether you have a personal or professional relationship with the client, you still have to write a professional, engaging plan that will motivate your client to work with you.

Define the threshold he or she needs to cross. Explain its significance. (Unit 3 Exercise)

What is Your Goal?

Define the threshold you think the person needs to cross. This can be stated in terms of a goal that you think the person can achieve, and explain why reaching this goal is important to him or her. How will it benefit him or her? Explain the significance of reaching this goal.

Create an extended definition of the way the hero’s journey steps in this course can help this person. (Unit 4 Discussion)

Definition

Create an extended definition for the goal or “cure” you think is necessary for this person. For instance, if you are offering exercise and nutritional advice, offer an extended definition for health or wellness or even nutrition.

Indicate the short and long-term benefits of this journey (Unit 6 Exercise)

Long-term effects

What are the long-term effects of this goal or cure? Think down the road and offer a thorough explanation of how working toward and achieving this goal is going to help this person out in the future.

Provide a conclusion that recaps your plan and leaves a positive impression on your potential employer (Unit 8 Scenario)

Conclusion

End this action plan with more positive input and inspiration for this person. Offer some final closing remarks that are thoughtful and will motivate this person to want to work with you. You can think in terms of your strengths and what you have to offer or reiterate how this goal will help this person in their life.

  CONTENT ORGANIZATION STYLE & MECHANICS 

Meets Expectations

(188-210)

Provides a clearly identifiable thesis sentence.

Creates original ideas about the topic and fully develops those ideas with support.

Addresses all aspects of the project.

Should be very well-ordered.  Paragraphs follow three-part structure (topic sentence, supporting sentences, and closing sentence).

Transitions found between and within paragraphs are clear.

Appropriate to the assignment, fresh (interesting to read), accurate, (no far-fetched, unsupported comments), precise (say what you mean), and concise (not wordy).

Project is free of serious errors; grammar, punctuation, and spelling help to clarify the meaning by following accepted conventions.

Citations follow APA guidelines for in-text citations and references page.

Thank you for a great Thank you for a great seminar!seminar!

Have a wonderful week!Have a wonderful week!

Kemeshia Kemeshia