Essay Instructions: Final Project:
As we learned in Unit 1, the activities in this course have been leading to a Final Project due in Unit 9. The Final Project provides you with an opportunity to bring together all of the concepts covered in this class.
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.
Your Final Project for this course will be like the end of a hero?s journey: sharing wisdom with your audience. In fact, you?ll be writing from the point of view of a life-coach?like you, someone who has learned ways to have a successful journey. You will be asked to choose a person who can benefit from the lessons of the hero?s journey and then apply those steps for the person?s betterment.
Components and Directions:
A life-coach is someone who offers guidance to another person. This type of relationship is seen in every culture around the globe. The term ?mentor? is just expressed in different ways, such as guru, teacher, life coach, elder, and others. Usually, someone will seek the guidance of a mentor and ask for help, or sometimes a person may notice another who could use some guidance and offer his or her assistance. After all, we all have our strengths and areas of expertise where we can offer our gifts to others who may be struggling. 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.
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.
What is the 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.
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.
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.
Conclusion: End this expository essay 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.
APA Guidelines: Please format your paper according to APA with a title page, double-spacing, running headers, in-text citations, and a references page. For this project you will need a minimum of three sources of which two sources can be from the web and a third source needs to be from a journal or book from the Kaplan library. You will need in-text citations for these sources and corresponding references page citation also. For possible sources, you can include the links to the videos and articles you have viewed earlier in this course, such as the hero?s journey, the matrix, etc. and refer to articles regarding crossing the threshold and other topics that you have encountered in this course. In addition, in your position as mentor in this essay, you may find a useful psychological or sociological source from the Kaplan library which could be your library reference.
This Final Project should be about 750-800 words, and double-spaced. Use transitions to make your essay cohesive?you?ll want to avoid using subheadings as they interrupt the flow of essay writing. On the other hand, transitional words and phrases help make our writing seamless. Click on this link to view the rubric for the Final Project.
Submitting your Final Project:
Put your project in a Word document. Save it in a location you'll remember.
When you are ready to submit it, go to the dropbox and complete the steps below:
?Click the link that says ?Submit an Assignment.?
?In the ?Submit to Basket? menu, select ?Unit 9: Dropbox.?
?In the ?Comments? field, make sure to add at least the title of your paper.
?Click the ?Add Attachments? button.
?Follow the steps listed to attach your Word document.
?To view your graded work, come back to the Dropbox or go to the Gradebook after your instructor has evaluated it.
Make sure that you save a copy of your submitted project.
