CSLP Assignments

The fourth credit for which you have signed up is Pass/Fail. To Pass the CSLP, you must successfully complete the following tasks:
• Turn in a signed time sheet that shows you have volunteered at least 40 hours for the approved community partner.
• Respond to the weekly blog prompts.
• Write an essay at semester’s end, the details of which are below. You will turn in your time sheet along with your essay on the due date.



CSLP Reflective Essay
Due: Thursday, May 3
Length: 1200 words

You may choose one of the following prompts to expand into a reflective essay, or you may propose to the instructor a topic of your own.

1) Describe a significant event that occurred as part of the service experience? Why was this incident significant for you? What did you learn from this experience? How will this incident influence your future behavior?

2) Addressing specific aspects of your service experience, how has that experience related to this writing course’s content and purpose? How might this experience and course content be applied to your personal or professional life?

3) Draw a portrait in words of a significant person you encountered at your community site.



By the time you begin writing this essay, you will be well acquainted with the criteria for successful essays. However, in case we forget, this essay will be direct, specific, with a thoughtful title and a quick beginning. The essay will employ fresh language, variety of sentence structure and style, and won’t bore the reader. Since all three of these essay topics focuses on a particular, specific subject, the writer will be able to express the essay’s point of view in a claim or thesis statement. I’ll be happy to look at drafts before the due date.