Borough of Manhattan Community College Thinking Critically Creative Living Journal

Journal 

Thinking Activity 12.4: Thinking About Your Career Plans

Describe in your current thoughts and feelings about your career plans, writing one paragraph per prompt:

1. A specific description of a career you think you might enjoy.

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2. A description of the history of this choice and the reasons why you think you would enjoy it.

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3. Any doubts, fears, uncertainties, or concerns you have pertaining to your choice.

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4. The problems you will have to solve and the challenges you will have to overcome in order to achieve your career goal.

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Discussion Board

Instructions: Choose an article that relates to our current module. Write one paragraph per prompt. Each paragraph should be at least three sentences. The full instructions appear on the next page. I will provide example responses below but I encourage you to write in your own voice. Please keep the prompts in place so your answers are clearly separated.

1.What is the main idea of the article? What supporting details does the author provide?

Answer: In “(title of article),” (author’s last name) explains that (paraphrase main idea). One reason is (paraphrase first supporting detail). Additionally, (paraphrase other supporting details).  

2.How does this article connect to our current module and why is it important? What new ideas emerge from reading these together? What questions arise for you?

Answer: This article connects to the PowerPoint/textbook for chapter (#) because (identify the connection). After reading (paraphrase of textbook material), it enhances my understanding of the article by (explain how the skill in the textbook applies here). One question that arises for me is (identify something you would now wonder about or wish to examine further.)

3.What is your opinion of what you read in the article? Why is this important to you?