Vision Care Optician Discussion

Description of

Assignment

: Each student will compose a 1-3 page essay that clearly identifies their personal philosophy and objectives related to their academic and

professional

careers. The essay will explore the student’s motivation, attitude toward the major/program/career they have chosen, and both short-term and long-term goals, including a comment on how this

course

will assist in achievement of these.

EDUCATIONAL GOAL: To help

students

recognize how this

course

will contribute to their academic and

professional

goals, and to assist them in determining how they hope to approach this

course

.

Objectives for the

Assignment

:

1. To clearly identify the student’s attitude or philosophy toward their chosen major, program or tentative future profession.
2. To support that philosophy with concrete reasons.
3. To support that philosophy with concrete goals, both short-term and long-term.
4. To present an introduction that recognizes there is an audience — and does not read as a journal entry — and attempts to interest them.
5. To build one or more body paragraphs that offer sufficient information to support the concepts found in the introduction.
6. To clarify the explanation with useful and succinct detail.
7. To conclude with a paragraph that sums up the general Mission Statement in a way that is memorable.

my major is vision care optician