English
500 words essay. Your response should be in essay form with obvious organization of ideas including an introduction, body and concluding material; readers will be considering these traditional parts of the essay as they read and discuss your writing. These readers will evaluate your essay based on:
Audience: your ability to write for a reader who expects to find those traditional
elements of essay named above.
Fluency: your ability to respond to an issue in multiple connected paragraphs.
Thesis: your ability to focus your thoughts into a written thesis statement or main
idea that clearly addresses the given topic.
Organization: your ability to clearly organize your thoughts around the main idea.
Development: your ability to thoroughly illustrate or explain your idea in writing.
Coherence: your ability to connect your written thoughts smoothly from sentence
to sentence and paragraph to paragraph.
Control: your ability to successfully manage the rules of basic written English.
Style: your sophistication of ideas, sentence structure and word selection.
In many social situations, it’s quite appropriate to ask someone what he or she does for a living. However, in some foreign cultures this is considered rude because it too closely identifies a person with his or her occupation. Do you think we place too much importance on our career in helping shape our identity? Write an essay in which you examine the possible consequences of creating our identity through the work we do. Please support your main idea with sufficient and relevant examples.