CCP ENGL101 Impacts of our Identity on our Success Discussion

Question Description

Throughout the semester we’ve read a number of chapters from Gladwell. This week we added three more voices to the mix-- Greenstreet, Coates and Anderson — that look at the benefits, costs and consequences of identity in our lives.

For this paper, you will the following question:

In what ways does our identity — how we see ourselves as well as how others see us — impact our ability to be successful?

Be an obvious attempt to follow the assignment;

Have a thesis statement at the end of the introduction;

Have an organization that is logical and easy to follow, making serious use of the “they say, I say” design and relevant templates;

Have a reasonably well-developed (as in detailed and specific) discussion, including thorough descriptions and explanations of ideas from Gladwell and/or other class readings as well as a clear explanation of your source from the Library database;

Have paragraphs with organizations that are logical and easy to follow (including topic and concluding sentences and transitions within and between paragraphs that indicate logical relations between your ideas);

Have sentences that are grammatically complete, logical and easy to follow; and

Have a minimum number of surface feature errors—correct use of periods and question marks, correct spelling, absence of typographical errors, etc., including no use of any form of the pronoun “you.”