Personal Responsibilty
University of Phoenix Material
Thesis Statement and Informal Outline Worksheet
In this course, you will write a 700- to 1,400-word Personal Responsibility Essay, due in Week Five, which includes the following:
Definition of personal responsibility and what it means to you.
Explain the relationship between personal responsibility and college success.
Include a preliminary plan to practice personal responsibility in your education.
This week, using the Center for Writing Excellence resources, provide the thesis statement and informal outline for your Personal Responsibility Essay assignment, due in Week Five.
Thesis Statement: Personal responsibility is defined as taking responsibility for your actions and accepting the consequences of those actions because taking responsibility for your actions means you do not try to blame others for you not being able to finish school or your goals. Also, accepting the consequences of our actions teaches us to be more mindful of our choices and we can react to our mistakes. Even though blaming others for our failures is easy because we are more likely to feel better about the situation if someone else has to face the consequences.
Informal Outline: Personal Responsibility: Your Fault or Mine?
Introduction: What is personal responsibility? How do you define it? Everybody has a different opinion when it comes to personal responsibility and how its defined. I define it as owning up to my actions and taking the consequences for those actions.
II. Taking responsibility for your actions in every situation.
A. When we take responsibility for our actions we admit that we made a mistake and we try to correct that mistake.
B. Take responsibility by making sure that when we make a mistake, we learn from that mistake, and try not to do the same thing again.
1. Example: You write a paper at the last minute and get a bad grade because you rushed through the paper. By making that bad grade, you learn to not
Thesis Statement and Informal Outline Worksheet
In this course, you will write a 700- to 1,400-word Personal Responsibility Essay, due in Week Five, which includes the following:
Definition of personal responsibility and what it means to you.
Explain the relationship between personal responsibility and college success.
Include a preliminary plan to practice personal responsibility in your education.
This week, using the Center for Writing Excellence resources, provide the thesis statement and informal outline for your Personal Responsibility Essay assignment, due in Week Five.
Thesis Statement: Personal responsibility is defined as taking responsibility for your actions and accepting the consequences of those actions because taking responsibility for your actions means you do not try to blame others for you not being able to finish school or your goals. Also, accepting the consequences of our actions teaches us to be more mindful of our choices and we can react to our mistakes. Even though blaming others for our failures is easy because we are more likely to feel better about the situation if someone else has to face the consequences.
Informal Outline: Personal Responsibility: Your Fault or Mine?
Introduction: What is personal responsibility? How do you define it? Everybody has a different opinion when it comes to personal responsibility and how its defined. I define it as owning up to my actions and taking the consequences for those actions.
II. Taking responsibility for your actions in every situation.
A. When we take responsibility for our actions we admit that we made a mistake and we try to correct that mistake.
B. Take responsibility by making sure that when we make a mistake, we learn from that mistake, and try not to do the same thing again.
1. Example: You write a paper at the last minute and get a bad grade because you rushed through the paper. By making that bad grade, you learn to not