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Professional Identity
Professional Identity
Complete the following surveys and discussions that will help you narrow down your skills to show in your memoir.
Reflection Questions that will help you:
1.) What are items on your bucket list?
2.) Which three characteristics of 8 keys of employability do you possess? What is the story behind those skills? How did you gain them?
3.) What is your personality? What are your strengths and weaknesses? What are your workplace habits and what career path is best for you? Do you agree with their assessment results?
Bucket List Creation
Bucket List Creation
Start from Passion: Think about the time you have left on this planet. What are some things you really want to accomplish before you 'kick the bucket'? What problems do you want to solve?
8 Keys of Employability
Identify three or more of these characteristics that you possess and present evidence as to why you feel you possesses these characteristics. Prove it. Explain a time when you modeled this characteristic. When, where, what happened?
Take the assessment and see what your personality is and what career path is best for you. It will also show you your strengths and weaknesses, and workplace habits!
If you know your personality, below is the link to the information about that type.
https://www.16personalities.com/personality-types
The Writing Process (5.6)
The Writing Process (5.6)
Think about the process you will go through in writing your memoir.
Writing is skill and must be improved over time. As you write different pieces of your paper, you will be asked to brainstorm, draft, revise, edit, and final submit your writings. The video to the left goes over one man's journey when he blogs. Watch and learn some useful tips.
Plot Diagram (5.1)
Plot Diagram (5.1)
Think about each piece of the diagram and piece your memoir together.
It would be a great idea to outline your memoir to make sure you have each piece.
The Plot Diagram shows how a narrative typically is laid out and helps organize events into beginning, middle and end. A good narrative will follow this diagram. Imagine having no climax- your story would be boring. Imagine having no exposition- your reader would be completely lost.
Exposition: The exposition or the introduction introduces the characters, describes the setting and establishes the problem in the story.
Conflict: The something that happens to create an issue. (
Rising Action: The rising action is where the suspense builds and the problem gets worse and becomes more complicated. There are often multiple steps or parts in the rising action.
Climax: The climax is the turning point in the story. It is usually the most exciting part in the story and the part that makes the reader want to keep reading.
Falling Action: The falling action is the events that happen after the climax that lead to a resolution or ending to the story.
Resolution: The resolution is the outcome of the story. It is how things end up or turn out for the characters.
Narrative Techniques (5.2)
Narrative Techniques (5.2)
Think about how you will address the following narrative techniques in your memoir. Maybe use one of each, or more!
Setting The setting is both the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction. The setting initiates the main backdrop and mood of a story, often referred to as the story world.
Plots
-Backstory: Story that precedes events in the story being told—past events or background that add meaning to current circumstances
-Flashback: General term for altering time sequences, taking characters back to the beginning of the tale, for instance
Perspectives
-1st person: A text presented from the point of view of a character, especially the protagonist, as if the character is telling the story themselves. (Breaking the fourth wall is an option, but not a necessity, of this format.)
-3rd person: A text written as if by an impersonal narrator who is not affected by the events in the story. Can be omniscient or limited, the latter usually being tied to a specific character, a group of characters, or a location.
Style
-Amplification: a literary practice wherein the writer embellishes the sentence by adding more information to it in order to increase its worth and understanding.
-Hyperbole: Exaggeration used to evoke strong feelings or create an impression which is not meant to be taken literally.
-Imagery: Forming mental images of a scene using descriptive words, especially making use of the human senses.
-Parody: The use of humor, irony or exaggeration to criticize.
Theme
Distributing recurrent thematic concepts and moralistic motifs among various incidents and frames of a story. In a skillfully crafted tale, thematic patterning may emphasize the unifying argument or salient idea disparate events and disparate frames have in common.
Concise, detailed, sensory language (5.3)
Concise, detailed, sensory language (5.3)
Details are an extremely important part of your writing. Without good details most writing isn’t worth reading. Why? Well, without details it’s hard for a reader to know exactly what a writer is trying to say. The writer’s head is full of things the reader can’t possibly know about. The question, of course, is how to get those things into the head of the reader. And the answer is all in the details.
Try a T-chart to create detail.
Think back to the first time you tried pizza. The smell of hot cheese, sizzling pepperonis, and baked bread was overtaking. Picking up your first slice and feeling the warmth of the bread. Taking your first bite that kept you wanting more and more.
Writers use sensory writing as a means of making their writing more realistic and descriptive. They integrate the five senses (sight, hearing, feeling, tasting, and smelling) within their writing to give the reader more of an understanding of the text. This creates a feeling of first-hand experience, which leads to a more engaging experience for readers. This technique is extremely popular in novels. Most authors use sensory language to create an emotional connection between the reader and the characters in the story.
Strong Conclusions (5.5)
Strong Conclusions (5.5)
It is important to have a strong conclusion, since this is the last chance you have to make an impression on your reader. The goal of your conclusion isn’t to introduce any new ideas, but to sum up everything you’ve written. Specifically, your conclusion should accomplish three major goals:
- Restate the main idea of your essay, or your thesis statement
- Summarize the three subpoints of your essay
- Leave the reader with an interesting final impression
The paragraph below is an example conclusion. As you read, think about what each sentence accomplishes within the paragraph. What sentence(s) restates the essay’s thesis statement? What sentence(s) summarizes the essay’s three subpoints? What sentence(s) leaves the reader with an interesting final impression?
"Getting a better job is a goal that I would really like to accomplish in the next few years. Finishing school will take me a long way to meeting this goal. To meet my goal, I will also prepare my résumé and search for jobs. My goal may not be an easy one to achieve, but things that are worth doing are often not easy."
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