Week 8 Personal Assignment Philosophy of Work Thesis Total Points: 50 points D

Week 8 Personal Assignment

Philosophy of Work Thesis
Total Points: 50 points
Due Date: Sunday of Week 8 by 11:59 PM
Instructions
This assignment will help you synthesize your values and beliefs about work to help “clear a path” for the choices you will make throughout your career trajectory. A career trajectory can look like an upside down “V,” a bell or a staircase (Ashe-Edmunds, n.d.). It is the path your jobs and relevant knowledge, skills, and abilities take as you move through and make choices about your career (including choices about the development of new knowledge, skills, and abilities).
Ashe-Edmunds, Sam. (n.d.). What Is a Career Trajectory? Work – Chron.com. Retrieved from http://work.chron.com/career-trajectory-14143.html
For this assignment, you will write a thesis statement with supporting claims about your overall beliefs about work. The thesis statement should include reasons for your position with supporting evidence from materials covered so far in this course or previous leadership courses. Look at what you have been putting into your discussion threads and listing on your vocation map. You are basically turning all of that into a fluid articulation of thoughts. Make your claims (a single statement of opinion or fact), and then give some explanation as to why you think/believe that in relation to your work plan/life.
Make your Teaching Statement brief and well written. 1-2 pages in length
Use a narrative, first-person approach.
Make it specific rather than abstract. Ground/Support your ideas in 1-2 concrete examples, whether experienced or anticipated. This will help the reader and you to better imagine yourself in that position.
Be sincere and unique and humble. Mean what you say.
Revise. Philosophies of work should evolve with you. As you gain more experience both with work and with people, your philosophy will likely adjust to better reflect your current state.
The Philosophy of Work Thesis should include:
Title
No grammar or misspellings
Introductory paragraph with clearly articulated thesis statement
2-3 claims for your claims/reasons for your beliefs about work with supporting evidence
Each claim should be clearly organized into separate paragraphs
Concluding paragraph re-framing each argument and connecting them back to the thesis statement and introduction