Life Goals:

A “Road Map” for Success

Use evidence from the text to support your ideas

about your goals and plans for success. Review the five (5) readings we read and annotated

in class this year: “Freshmen Year: The Make-It-Or-Break-It Year” (2007) “You Can Grow Your Intelligence” (2002) Chapter 1:“The Mindsets” (from The New Psychology of

Success) (2006) “Time Management for Teens” (published 2010) “Snooze or Lose” (from New York Magazine) (2007)

Determine which information did you annotate then that you could use now to support your essay.

Using Research

Articles we’ve read and annotated this school year in

WOC

Review the annotations you made for each of the five

articles. Identify FIVE (5) quotes/excerpts that could be used to

support your goals for either HS, College, Career, and/or Personal ONE (1) from EACH article= Five total Write these on a separate sheet of paper

List the TITLE of the ARTICLE, its AUTHOR, and its DATE of PUBLICATION

EXAMPLE: According to the article, “You Can Grow Your Intelligence,” it states that, “The more that you challenge your mind to learn, the more your brain cells grow” (Health & Science: News You Can Use, 2002).

On The “Write” Path

Consider how these articles can act as sources for you

to create a convincing argument for the goals you’ve selected as well as why you deserve to achieve them.

Using evidence to support your claims only makes your argument stronger and more convincing to your audience.

It shows your audience that you actually know what you’re talking about and that you’re not just all talk with no action. When you sound like an expert, you tend to start to act

like one, too!

Why Cite Research?

Select at least three (3) references from at

least three different sources. These will act as your evidence to support the

claims you make about your goals. For each reference, be sure that you follow a

general “formula” for incorporating research into your writing.

State your claim (this is also known as the central

argument, purpose or thesis) Introduce the text you’ll be referencing (mention

the title, the author and/or its most recent date of publication)

Cite the evidence You may either paraphrase or put the idea in your

own words, or you could cite the text exactly putting quotation marks (“ “) around your evidence.

Explain why the evidence you selected is the best to illustrate (or support, or prove) your claim.

How to Cite Evidence