You began or returned to college for important reasons, and one of those reasons is to learn new skills or expand on your current skills. Therefore, the purpose of the essay you will write in this course is for you
ASSIGNMENT: You began or returned to college for important reasons, and one of those reasons is to learn new skills or expand on your current skills. Therefore, the purpose of the essay you will write in this course is for you to tell your reader (your essay evaluator) three skills you hope to learn or improve on while in college. For each of your course assignments, you will build one section of your essay until you have a final version.
In this first Touchstone, you will create a single thesis statement for your essay. The table below shows two examples of how you might form this thesis.
Narrow Topic + Main Ideas = Thesis Statement
What is the narrowed topic of your essay? What are the main ideas of your essay? Your final one-sentence thesis statement, expressing the larger main point of the essay.
Beginning college for the first time to learn communication, technology, and collaboration skills While I have decided to start my college education for many reasons, I am most looking forward to learning the communication, technology, and collaboration skills that will be important in the workplace.
Returning to college to finish my degree to improve upon communication, technology, and collaboration skills I have decided to return to college in order to improve upon the communication, technology, and collaboration skills that I need to be successful in my job.
Please do NOT write your whole essay in this assignment. You will create the essay step-by-step each unit for final submission in Unit 4. Creating your thesis statement is the first step in creating your essay.
Sample Touchstone 1.1 .pdf
In order to foster learning and growth, all work you submit must be newly written specifically for this course. Any plagiarized or recycled work will result in a Plagiarism Detected alert. Review Touchstones: Academic Integrity Guidelines for more about plagiarism and the Plagiarism Detected alert. For guidance on the use of generative AI technology, review Ethical Standards and Appropriate Use of AI.
A. Assignment Guidelines
DIRECTIONS: For this assignment, you will construct a one-sentence thesis statement that clearly states three skills you hope to learn or improve on while in college. In this thesis statement, you should:
Identify the narrow topic of the thesis (either your choice to begin college for the first time, or to return to college to complete your degree).
Identify the main ideas of the thesis statement (the three skills you hope to learn or improve on).
Minimize mechanical and stylistic errors.
C. Requirements
The following requirements must be met for your submission to be graded:
Double-space the outline and use one-inch margins.
Use a readable 12-point font.
All writing must be appropriate for an academic context.
Composition must be original and written for this assignment.
Plagiarism of any kind is strictly prohibited.
Submission must include your name, the name of the course, the date, and the title of your composition.
Submission must include your thesis statement formatted according to the guidelines above.
Include all of the assignment components in a single file.
Acceptable file formats include .doc and .docx.