Thesis Statement and Informal Outline Worksheet GEN/200 Version 2

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Thesis Statement and Informal Outline Worksheet
In this course, you will write a 1,050- to 1,750-word Personal Responsibility Essay, due in Week Five, which includes the following:

Define what personal responsibility means to you. Explain the relationship between personal responsibility and college success. Include a preliminary plan to practice personal responsibility in your education.

This week, using the Center for Writing Excellence resources, provide the thesis statement and informal outline for your Personal Responsibility Essay assignment, due in Week Five. Thesis Statement:

Informal Outline:

ESSAY:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Personal Responsibility. The word itself seems to be filled with lot of duties and disciplines! Our great former president J. F. Kennedy once said, Dont see what the country has done for you. Rather see what you have done for your country. The statement itself had proved a great success in boosting peoples morale towards their duties for the nation. In other terms, those words had made citizens realize their Personal Responsibilities towards their great nation. Responsibilities are of different varieties which include different lists of Dos and Donts respectively to serve each of the purpose better and better! We have duties towards almost everything that surrounds us. No matter physically, mentally or emotionally. Whether it is our grandparents, our siblings, our neighbor, our pet or the whole society to which we are grateful to provide us with such a good living standards and luxuries! But of course, each has to be dealt in its respective way. For e.g. it is our duty to help our grandparents serve dishes, search for their

Thesis Statement and Informal Outline Worksheet GEN/200 Version 2

misplaced glasses etc. but when it comes to helping our siblings, by not even letting them pack their own bag, we maybe encouraging them to rely on others a lot that they may not even become mature enough to decide what is good or bad for them in their later lives! So in simple words, Personal Responsibility is the self-disciplinary trait of oneself which makes him/her aware of what is good for the self as well as for others and how to handle difficult situations and comfort own self as well as others. But the major advantage of being brave enough to hold personal responsibility that as you start molding yourself in a manner, it eventually puts an end to negative thought patterns. You no longer dwell on what went wrong or focus on whom you are going to blame. You even dont waste the precious time building roadblocks to your success. Instead, you are set free to roll on the path of conquering higher and greater achievements! I would like to quote a great personality of the human history at this point whose words in my opinion best describes the deepest meaning of ones responsibility.

Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words. Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story Of My Experiments With Truth