Michael Ruwoldt

Mr. Newman
English 101: Rhetoric
19 September 2014
Statement of Scope for the Annotated Bibliography
As people grow older they find interests in many diverse areas and form their own
personality. In a perfect world everyone would be getting paid for what they love to do but career
choosing can be way more difficult than that. Choosing a career can be the biggest decision of
your life. In many schools and communities our youth are being pressured to choose a career
choice or interest before their junior year of high school. The curriculum and teaching is
supposed to have students prepared for this decision. The pressure of deciding what youre going
to do in the future and how youre going to support yourself and others suddenly rests on your
shoulders. Although some may say that choosing a career path early in life is ideal for
preparation and success; making such an important decision at such a young and impressionable
age isn't the best option for someone who still has so much to learn.
In this essay I will explain the stress and pressure that goes into choosing a career at a
young age. Many school administrators think its good plan your route in life at the age of
fourteen but a fourteen year old may not even know who they truly are yet. I will analyze how
the pressure of ones future builds and builds on the shoulders of a high school student. Also I
will be going into the positives of picking a career path at such a young age. I will implement the
ideas and thoughts of some students and scholars as in why picking a career plan early can be
valuable or extremely dreadful for some.
This selected bibliography includes sources that address the importance of knowing
yourself, goals you need to achieve your career plan, and the weight that goes into your
decisions. While most of my articles were written by scholars, few were written by actual high
school students. The Ellis and Noel articles explain the importance of knowing yourself and self
assessment. The authors explain that when one goes to choose a career plan, they should do
something that correlates with them, and how their personalities can benefit from a career. The
writers include the idea that not many of our youth know their personalities during their early
years of high school. The Authors David Walsh and Julie Quimby both incorporate the idea that
the people around you and, the places that you come from can affect your career choices. Walsh
explains that choosing a career early can be favorable, and that creating goals will help a
determined youth reach their career plans. Writer Cassandra Hayes tells her readers that choosing
the right path should only be your choice. No outside forces should be telling you what to do on
your path; which for high school students can be very hard. These sources explained many things
that go into the decision of choosing a career; but could have gotten into more detail, about what
can be going through a high schoolers head while deciding this.

Annotated Bibliography
Ellis, Marjorie.. Career Planning & Job Search: Self-Assessment: Discovering Yourself
and Making the Best Choices for You!. Black Collegian. 01 Oct. 1999: 30, 32, 34.
eLibrary. Web. 15 Sep. 2014. This article explains that kids may think they dont know

who they are or what they wanna do with their life yet. It talks about how putting all the
things you like into one career or choosing a career can be extremely overwhelming. The
author explains most of the fears that goes into a young persons mind when choosing
their future.
Hayes, Cassandra. Choosing the right path. Black Enterprise. 01 Apr. 2001: 108.
eLibrary. Web. 16 Sep. 2014. This magazine article explains all the factors that you
should consider when choosing a career. It breaks down what your interests mean and it
tells you some of the careers are right for you. Goals are an important factor in this article
in which the author explains how his goal settings got him where he is today.
Noel, Noel Mark., Michaels, Chad., Levas, Michael G.. The relationship of personality
traits and self-monitoring behavior to choice of business major. Journal of Education for
Business 3(2003):153. eLibrary. Web. 16 Sep. 2014. During this article the authors
examine the relationship of personality traits and behavior to a students choice of a
business major. The entry explains many of the factors that goes into the decision of
picking a major. The read tells that people do a lot of things based on the interests of
them and thats why people pick what they pick for jobs.
Quimby, Julie L., DeSantis, Angela M.. The Influence of Role Models on Womens
Career Choices. Career Development Quarterly 4(2006):297. eLibrary. Web. 16 Sep.
2014. The author talks about how role models is critical in the career decision process.
Role models can affect how you feel about a job, how you look at a job, or even the
people who work there. This explains all the outside pressures that are going into
deciding a profession.

Walsh, David. Helping Youth in Underserved Communities Envision Possible Futures:

An Extension of the Teaching Personal and Social.... Research Quarterly for Exercise
and Sport 2(2008):209. eLibrary. Web. 16 Sep. 2014. This article explains how youth in
underserved communities lack resources to achieve some of their hopes and dreams in
the career world. The people in this article went and helped some underprivelaged kids
achieve some of their goals by giving back with a Career Club. The article shows how
some kids arent sure what they are going to do when theyre older, it also shows how
some youth dont have all the proper components to achieve their career goals.