You Will Be Asked to Choose a Person Who Can Benefit from the Lessons of the Hero's Journey and Then Apply Those Steps for the Person's Betterment

Many essays attempt to educate an audience about a topic and, ultimately, explain ideas this audience may not have understood before reading your essay. You can use this essay style--the expository essay style--for purposes such as informing, persuading, and explaining. In our course, we will focus on the informative style of expository writing. To be convincing, essays must be driven by critical thinking and analysis. Throughout this course, you have learned aspects of effective writing that will be used in this Final Project.

Your Final Project for this course will be like the end of a hero's journey: sharing wisdom with your audience. In fact, you'll be writing from the point of view of a life-coach--like you, someone who has learned ways to have a successful journey. You will be asked to choose a person who can benefit from the lessons of the hero's journey and then apply those steps for the person's betterment.

Components and Directions:

A life-coach is someone who offers guidance to another person. This type of relationship is seen in every culture around the globe. The term "mentor" is just expressed in different ways, such as guru, teacher, life coach, elder, and others. Usually, someone will seek the guidance of a mentor and ask for help, or sometimes a person may notice another who could use some guidance and offer his or her assistance. After all, we all have our strengths and areas of expertise where we can offer our gifts to others who may be struggling. The final project for this course asks you to imagine a scenario where you are a mentor to someone else. You can choose the person you will mentor. You can be a professional mentor, such as in the workplace or in a career situation like being an exercise and nutrition specialist who is helping someone who has health issues.

Introduction: Introduce yourself to the client in an appropriate way. What this means is if you have an established personal relationship with that person then you can be more personal in your introduction where you can tell him or her where you'd like to help out and why you think you can offer help in one area of his or her life. If you have a more professional relationship with the person, then keep the language on that level as well. No matter whether you have a personal or professional relationship with the client, you still have to write a professional, engaging plan that will motivate your client to work with you.

What is the goal?: Define the threshold you think the person needs to cross. This can be stated in terms of a goal that you think the person can achieve, and explain why reaching this goal is important to him or her. How will it benefit him or her? Explain the significance of reaching this goal.

Definition: Create an extended definition for the goal or "cure" you think is necessary