The Purpose of Higher Education Reflective Essay

Plan on spending 1 hour and 20 minutes (regular class length) composing your response. You can submit your essay response as text or upload it as a Word document.

Length- As much as you can write in duration of class time ( note that the time limit on this assignment will be 4 hours, but plan on spending an only an hour and 20 min this will allow some flexibility in case youd like to bid on other students assignment )

Closed book/ No sources just general known facts and what you think personally

The decision to obtain a higher education is one that involves more than the individual person. There are many contexts that influence this choice such as family, peer groups, the media and the economics of a person’s nation. While higher education is considered a luxury by many around the world, in the United States, it is perceived increasingly as a social and economic necessity. Additionally, in a democracy such as the United States, it is crucial that citizens can think critically about the actions of elected government officials and make informed choices about the people they vote into office.

Using your knowledge of essay composition, respond to ALL of the following as thoroughly as you can:

What is the purpose of higher education for

A. The individual ex- people who love their job/ people who hate their job

B. Our society- my thoughts (we live in a democratic nation) How does the collective benefit?

C. You, personally Anyone pursing higher education is doing it by choice My Major – Environmental sciences

What does is mean to you to pursue higher education?

Plan on spending 1 hour and 20 minutes (regular class length) composing your response. You can submit your essay response as text or upload it as a Word document.

Clear thesis, 1 direct sentence at the end of the introduction paragraph
Should intend to bring up all major topic points, planned to be expressed throughout the essay
double spaced, times new roman 12 point font
CLOSED BOOK assignment, no outside sources!!!! (Almost Personal)
Conclusion paragraph should wrap everything together mentioning points made earlier in thesis
A, B,& C must be addressed

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You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.