...that I find a certain level of success. Failure is not an option for me, whether it is knowing that my parents want, or need, to live vicariously through my achievements, a dream of giving my children more than what I had growing up, or my need for a sense of fulfillment. In my past attempt to get my degree, I didn't approach the situation the way I should have - I didn't have a game plan. Learning has always come easy to me, so I just assumed that I could glide right through like I had done since kindergarten. I was wrong. The possibility of failure that I had completely dismissed became very real. I was embarrassed and and wondered just what my future would hold for me without my degree. Now, in my second attempt at Phoenix, I know that there are certain essential practices that I will need to reply to reach the level of success I want to see. The main factors that will aid in my academic success are setting goals for myself using specific learning style and abilities, developing my writing skills using resources provided by the university and other credible sources beyond the university, and a complete understanding of the importance of academic integrity. Setting goals have been proven to improve performance on any task. When a student sets goals for his/herself and then is successful in reaching those goals, they feel better about themselves and about their capabilities, and thus continue to set and accomplish goals throughout their academic career (Morisano et. al. 2010)...
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...Academic Success How important are your educational goals? * What are the benefits of creating educational goals? Educational goals give students the abilities to communicate effectively, acquire knowledge and skills, that help develop a strong sense of independence to prepare them for the real world. Achieving these educational goals, helps create a fruitful and creative learner. My career is important to me, My job is one of the most important things, and I invest all my time and energy towards it. Having eight years experience in the medical field, personally I know that obtaining my bachelor's degree is the right decision for me. Having an academic background to match your work experience is imperative. Yes, it is also possible to gain excellent knowledge "On the job", but for me the ground rules, were not installed, I feel like I cheated myself. What I am learning today, is all unknown, I did not know the basics - Who am I? What are my influences? As I reflect on the years, I wasted not getting a degree. This year I was finally able to discover myself, and realize what was important, and what I wanted to gain from my future. I see myself running a hospital or nursing home. I enjoy helping people, being in the position where I would be able to help people from different ages and cultural aspects, will be very fulfilling. My goal is to not only graduate, and proceed to a masters degree, but also with honors. * How can your personal learning style help you be...
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...University of Phoenix Material Academic Success Answer each question below in at least 75 words per question, reflecting on your current abilities, and identify resources to strengthen your skills. Refer to the videos, readings, and other weekly assignments to help you compose your answers. |Question |Your reflection | |How would you define academic |Academic readiness is having the skills, motivation for advancement, financial stability and | |readiness? |desire to learn. Anyone can go to school up through high school, but not everyone can go beyond | | |to get a college education. Of course, it is best done right after high school, when the mind is| | |fresh and malleable and when there is ample financial support from grants or parents, but today | | |there are many adult students who have returned after working for a number of years. It is in | | |the college’s as well as the student’s best interest to verify that the student is academically | | |ready for higher learning. | |What concerns, if any, do you have |I have no problem with writing and reading...
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...My Plan for Academic Success Nick W Are we truly prepared for any possible event that may happen in our future? If I were to gauge my academic success so far, I’d probably give it a 7/10. This is because while my freshman year was amazing, and I did well for that year, my sophomore year was terrible, pessimistic and depressing. I did the bare minimum of everything that was assigned to me, and what I did do was terribly prepared and the effort that was put in was the bare minimum as well. But, as I did poorly, I still managed to obtain decent grades. Even though I was depressed, I still managed to gather the energy to be at least somewhat better at the subjects I did like. But all in all I must say I do not like school. The major problem...
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...Continuing Academic Success Joseph La Corte GEN/201 12/1/2014 Portia Dennis Continuing Academic Success Despite the time needed and money spent, returning to school as an adult is never a bad idea due to the opportunities it can present. If approached with an open mind the idea of returning to school, while daunting, is easily justified. A person who feels stuck, spinning their tires so to speak, can go back to school to gain more traction by learning new skills and earning a degree. It’s not supposed to be simple, in fact, approximately 60% of undergraduates attend more than one college while earning a bachelor’s degree (Kinser & Deitchman, 2007), but with determination and persistence it can be done. Setting Goals Goals can be set by being honest with oneself. What do I want to achieve in this endeavor? What are the real reasons for my enrollment in school? (Callin, 1983) My particular goals are, like many others, based on financial success. I want to be comfortable. I want to be able to provide for my family, and when I have children of my own I want my wife to have the option of not working. How do I do that without getting a degree? The answer for me was no. So I decided then I would set an educational goal for myself, to earn my bachelor’s degree. After selecting my degree I set a professional goal of becoming an IT specialist or programmer, more specifically a mobile applications developer. These goals will serve as a driving force for me in school. Critical...
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...CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM Introduction There is no greater financial investment in one’s future than a college degree. It is the only way for sustained personal and professional success. It makes lasting changes in the lives of those who seek it. Earning a college degree is such an important step in life that it has become a central part of the “Filipino Dream”. Go to college, get a job, buy a house, and raise a family. It may not always be that simple, but it all starts with your college education and yes, it changes people’s stories. Earning a college degree is all about opening up opportunities in life. It prepares you, both intellectually and socially, for your career and your adult life. A college education can open many doors in a person’s search for a career. People that have attained a college degree are hired in at a higher pay and are considered to be much more employable. This means that a college graduate would be more likely to be offered employment than another who did not attend college or did not attain a degree. College will also assist in preparing a person for a career in a particular field. In a vast majority of highly specialized jobs, if one does not have a college degree, there is little to no possibility of securing a career in that chosen field. College will give a person the tools to succeed in the field of their choice. These tools would not be available to most people who do not attend college. However, all of this benefits of having...
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...Academic Success In this essay I will talk to you about academic success and how you can achieve it. In achieving this success I will talk to you about how your goals can lead you to success, and in doing so I will give you an example of one of my educational goals and career goals. I will also talk to you about how the writing process can help you to advance you education and career, give you an example of how your ELI can help you make better decisions. I will also talk to you about what steps I will be taking in helping me improve my critical thinking , what resources that I will be using from the university, the pros and cons of working with outside sources and other lessons that I have learn from being in this class. Academic Success When you are first starting out at a new school your first thought is that you want to be successful. Well it’s not the easy all the time for some people and in being successful there are some guidelines that you will have to follow in order to have success in school and that’s what I am going to talk about to you today and the way you can do that the first thing I will talk to you about is how goal setting can lead you to success and in doing so I will give you an example of a goal I have set for my education and my career, the second is how the writing process can help you with your academic career and your professional career and how the information form my ELI will help me in making better decisions. What steps I will take to improve...
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...Continuing Academic Success Abstract Continuing academic success is imperative in today's society. The majority of the jobs in today’s society require you to have a formidable educational background to be considered for employment. The ability to continue and grow in academic achievement is necessary toward the efforts of furthering a career, gaining work experience, and future successes as a professional. Continuing Academic Success Even though in today’s society, personal connections mean more than academic knowledge, continuing academic success plays a significant role in your future as well. Being able to continue and grow in academic success helps the student further his or her career and gain more experience in his or her career field, as well as promote his or her future successes as a professional. A person who is literate and knowledgeable about the subject matter can earn promotions to higher positions with roles that necessitate the employment of a well-educated employee. It helps open up various opportunities in a person’s career based off of everything they will have learned from an academic program. Academically successful adults are those who have a higher level of education. These people are more likely to gain employment, as well as employment stability. Gaining more experience provides them with available resources in their current career field and keeps them updated with any changes that take place within that career field. They may be provided with...
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...Academic and Career Success Gen 201 September 18, 2014 Regina Baxter Academic and Career Success The world that we live in is very competitive. It starts when we are young with sports and our siblings and then that carries on to our academic lives. All through our education and onto our higher education it is a very common theme. Do the best you can, try to be in the top, never settle for less. It’s ingrained into us. And then finally when we reach our career field we realize that even with a great foundation, good references and the degree to back us up, we still have to compete for success. We have to want it and work for it, it will never come easy. Even though there are many resources, a students’ academic and career success falls to them alone. The first thing you have to realize in higher education is academic integrity you are reasonable for your own work. Do not buy papers, do not plagiarize and do not turn in assignments that are not yours. I know that this may sound like it’s an easy concept, but you’d be amazed at how many times I have heard of such things happening. Not only will it affect you but it could affect other students and reflect badly on your learning institution. Not to mention that if you start this habit now, in class, it could follow you through to your career. Do you really want to be that person? After you have decided you will uphold academic integrity you need to set your goals. Setting academic goals is very important and it’s really...
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...Academic success can be achieved by creating educational goals and maintaining academic integrity. Your personal learning style will help you not only in school but in your career and in your life. With so many resources available to students you are sure to succeed at anything you put your mind to. Proper education and learning the core fundamentals of our major is very important, but without learning about how we learn as individuals and exposing ourselves to all of the services the university has to offer we may not be as successful as we can be. Beginning my educational journey at the University of Phoenix and taking GEN200 has helped me refresh my learning abilities, learn some new critical thinking skills and has helped me in taking the beginning steps to achieve success in my education and eventually in my career. Setting long and short term goals is the key to academic success. Creating realistic long term goals such as graduating college gives us something to work towards and creates the ultimate goal. Setting short term goals such as finishing a paper early, getting all of the reading for a class done or getting an A in a class brings us one step closer to achieving the ultimate goal. Short term goals will always help bring us to our long term goal without it becoming overwhelming and working toward that goal one step at a time. One way to help achieve a short term goal of succeeding academically is the writing process. Getting your thoughts on paper, completing...
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...Continuing Academic Success Continuing Academic Success is extremely important to those who plan to make advancements in their chosen career fields. It provides the opportunity to keep current with ideas, techniques, and advancements that are being made in their area of employment. We will address the importance of setting achievable goals, the importance of learning styles in academic success and the validity of ethics and academic integrity in helping to achieve continuing academic and professional success. Setting Goals Distinct, clearly defined goals that can be measured will allow a person to take pride in accomplishing the goals they have set. They are able to see clear forward progress in what otherwise might seem a long drawn out process. Setting goals allows one to choose where they want to go in school or in a career and what they want to achieve. Knowing what they want to achieve, helps them know what they have to concentrate on and improve. Goal setting gives one long-term vision and short-term motivation. By setting goals students and employees can: improve their academic and career performance, increase their motivation to achieve, increase pride and satisfaction in performance and improve their self- confidence. Setting goals and measuring their achievements allow the goal setters to see what they have done and what they are capable of doing. Seeing their results gives them confidence and assurance and motivation they need to believe they can...
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...Academic Success 1 Each year about 2.75 million students enroll in a 4 year degree program at a university. On average 33 percent of these students drop out within their first two years of school. Academic success is an ongoing effort and can be a struggle for many students that have outside factors affecting their ability to attend school. Following a few simple steps can help students manage their lifestyle and continue academic success. Goal setting, thinking critically, understanding the writing process, and decision making are all steps to continuing academic success and avoiding road blocks. The first step to continuing academic success is goal setting. Setting S.M.A.R.T goals or goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely can help make a huge endeavor seem attainable. Psychologist Camille Rodriquez states that “any goals that students set should be meaningful to them, not just words on paper.” Students that take the time to truly understand what they want to accomplish and set goals to get them there are 83 percent more likely to achieve that goal. According to a study at the University of Michigan 70 percent of college students drop out because of lack of time and being burned out. Setting small attainable goals can help keep a student focused on something small that may not be as daunting as four years of school. Setting goals can help with time management and avoid the dreaded burned out feeling...
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...Academic Success: A Road Paved by your Own Decisions While there are many factors that will contribute to your college education, holding yourself personally responsible is the most important. It is your name on the assignments, you make the decisions on how to spend time, and it is your work ethic that will determine the level of success you achieve. There could come a time when you will be asked to work in a team environment, but even then you are responsible for a portion of the team’s accomplishments or short falls. The days of spoon fed answers and hands held are over, now is the time to stand alone and accept responsibility. Ron Haskins, a former White House and congressional advisor, describes personal responsibility as “the willingness to both accept the importance of standards that society establishes for individual behavior and to make strenuous personal efforts to live by those standards” (para. 1). Standards are set by society for every aspect of our lives, punctuality at work, obeying laws, and even general conduct in public. It is the job of the individual to both recognize the standard, and then to meet those standards. That only partially describes personal responsibility. It is not enough to meet standards, but to take responsibility for failures as well (Haskins, 2012). An individual must take control of the available time and opportunities that they are given on a daily basis, while at the same time accepting the consequences of their decisions...
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...career will improve my communication skills. The writing process begins with creating an outline, conducting research making a draft and editing my draft. Utilizing these steps will allow for academic and communication success. Improve my critical-thinking skills There are six questions I must ask when beginning the Critical thinking poses. Remembering, Understanding, applying, evaluating and creating. Remembering: recalling the key terms or facts or events. Understanding: Can I explain this idea in my words. Applying: Can I use this idea to produce a desired result. Analyzing: Can I divide this idea into parts or steps. Evaluating: Can I rate the truth or usefulness, quality of this idea and give reasons for my rating. Creating: Can I invent something new based on this idea. I must ask myself these questions when using Critical thinking. I must make this a part of my life. I use Critical thinking every day I was unaware of it. Each time I weigh the pros or cons of something I ‘am using critical thinking. By listening to new ideas from others, I can gain a new perspective on a subject. Critical thinking can allow me the opportunity to build a better relationship with my employees or peers, by helping to open lines of communication. Resources I will use to ensure academic success I will use the University of Phoenix library to help in finding reliable source for this paper and many more. Also, utilize the Center for writing excellence Submit Paper for Plagiarism Review...
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...Continuing Academic Success Essay John Smith GEN 201 Continuing Academic Success Essay Even though you're scared of academic failure, make sure you know yourself because knowing what your goals are and how to accomplish them and to know what resources are available will help you succeed. Going back to school can be terrifying, especially after being out school for so long. You, like myself, are probably telling yourself that you can’t do it. You haven’t been in school in so long; things have changed so much. We all hate the thought of failure; the truth is you won’t know until you try. There are things you can do to help yourself prepare for returning to school, and I’m going to go over some that I have learned along the way. The most important thing you need to know when returning to school is yourself. You can’t be successful if you don’t know your strengths and weaknesses. By taking a look at yourself, you can get a grasp on what areas of learning you might struggle with and what part of learning should come easy. There are many factors that can influence how we learn. These factors can include your behavioral characteristics, how much life experience you have, which of your senses are most predominant and whether or not you are self-directed in your learning (Reuter, 2000). For instance, I know that I need to be shown a few times, then I need just to dive in and try it myself. If I don’t get that hands on experience, all the telling me in the world doesn’t...
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