Choose one of the three topics below.

• Topic 1: Is it more important to have soft skills or hard skills? Support your claim with research, including how either soft skills or hard skills are used in your career.
• Topic 2: How do the skills you’re learning in General Education courses apply to your future career? Support your paper with research (ex. communication, soft skills, importance of time management, etc.).
• Topic 3: Convince a friend, family member, or coworker to consider earning a college degree. Identify 3-5 reasons why someone should be a college graduate.

Choose a prewriting activity – free-writing, brainstorming, mapping or questioning. Perform the activity using the topic you chose above. Some questions to consider as you prewrite:

• What do you already know about the topic? What interests you about the topic?
• Where might you learn more about the topic? (Friends? Family?)
• What sources would be helpful in learning about this topic?

Discuss your prewriting activity.

• What prewriting activity or activities did you do?
• Why did you select the prewriting activity or activities that you did?
• What was hard about the activity?
• What was easy about the activity?
• Explain your reasons for selecting your topic, and how the prewriting process helped you in exploring the topic