Original Prompt: In your essay, identify how Angela Duckworth’s concept of ‘grit’ can further college students’ growth as college level readers. In this essay, for each concept you select, be sure to:
define grit in your own words;
explain why you selected grit; and
describe concrete (solid) steps students can take to initiate, sustain, and/or strengthen grit over the course of the semester in their reading.
Revised suggestions:
Make thesis specific to college reading. Think about what ‘gritty’ readers do. Do they take notes? Do they reread? Do they keep asking questions so they can accurately summarize a piece? In your 3rd and 4th and 5th paragraphs you outline several things that students do to develop grit:
a) set short-term and long-term goals that are realistic
b) develop perseverance to work through challenges.
c) develop a growth mindset
d) clarify what interests them
In your revision, develop a paragraph for each idea in a-d as it applies to strengthening college-level reading?
2. Make sure each paragraph’s main idea is about the relationship between grit and reading. NOTE:
3. Read essay assignment requirements; one paraphrase from one text from our class is required; these texts are listed on the essay assignment.
