Essay

Essay Topic & Instructions Your essay’s purpose is to illustrate the process you use to manage your time to successfully balance your home, work, and school responsibilities. You should identify and describe the steps youve taken and illustrate to your readers how these steps have worked for you. Tip for Success: Be sure to check out the resources available to you in the Learning Resource Center for videos and worksheets to help you complete this assignment. Youll be writing in the first-person point of view because this is your process. Your audience is other Penn Foster students. The goal is to show your readers how you manage your time, not to instruct them on how to do it. Dont use second person or use you to address your readers. While the audience is other Penn Foster students, focus on explaining how you manage your time. For this assignment, youll prepare a 10001200 word process analysis essay that incorporates narration and description. The essay must be at least five-paragraphs long and must include an introductory paragraph that ends with a solid thesis statement, three body paragraphs that relate directly to the points expressed in your thesis statement, and a solid conclusion. Here is a blueprint for you for The Process Analysis Essay: I. Introduction: Ends with thesis statement. (Example: The tools/strategies that I use to achieve work-life balance are tool/strategy #1, tool/strategy #2, and tool/strategy #3). II. Body paragraph 1: Topic sentence must state the first tool/strategy you use. The rest of the paragraph must be about that tool/strategy and how you use it to achieve work-life balance. III. Body paragraph 2: Topic sentence must state the second tool/strategy you use. The rest of the paragraph must be about that tool/strategy and how you use it to achieve work-life balance IV. Body paragraph 3: Topic sentence must state the third tool/strategy you use. The rest of the paragraph must be about that tool/strategy and how you use it to achieve work-life balance. V. Conclusion: Must reiterate the thesis and summarize it while giving readers a sense of closure. Your essay will have five solid paragraphs per this blueprint. ***Please remember that all paragraphs must be indented (use the tab key), and the content of your essay must be double-spaced. Youll be writing in the first-person point of view because this is your process. Your audience is other Penn Foster students.