Educational journey
Kim Cullen Rawley
WRIT 111
Essay #2
Sept. 3, 2014
Essay #2 — 3 to 5 page paper in APA style
Due Dates: Rough draft due Tuesday Sept. 16 for peer review,
Final draft Thursday Sept. 18
Using the excerpt from Mike Rose’s Lives on the Boundary, compare
your educational journey to the author’s in a three- to five-page paper.
Mike Rose is a first‐generation American Italian who grew up desperately poor and was “tracked” into remedial classes throughout
his education. Although his parents had few resources, they valued
education (sometimes more than he did), and tried to give him what he
needed to succeed. He prevailed, and is now one of the leading
education reformers.
Consider what Rose has to say about his early education and compare
your own education experiences to his: does your culture value
education, or are you going against tradition? Do you have the opposite
problem, that you feel pressured into attending college and excelling?
Have you “turned off” in classes before because you were not engaged in
what was going on? This is a compare and contrast, so be sure you are
using the text.
Review the handouts to make sure you introduce your sources properly
and use signal phrases to integrate your quotes. Use quotes from the text to illustrate Rose’s experience that you are comparing to your education. All of your quotes should be integrated into sentences. Use APA style and have a References page. Have an imaginative title that is not the name of one of the works being done
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Most people usually think that they go to school to make their parents happy. This aspect is brought about by the fact that parents tend to be more interested in their kids’ education a lot. This is mainly because of the fact that parents tend to value education more than their kids since their life experiences have proved to them that education is very important to a person. As a result of this, I also had the same notion while I was still young. I used to go to school in order to make my parents happy. This is because they always…………………..
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