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What Now?
After you have completed your prewriting, choose the three obstacles
that you want to focus on in your essay. If you do not have enough
material to pick and choose, prewrite a little more.
Topic 2: Discuss your short-term goals,
long-term goals, or both.
Tips for Prewriting
Use any of the methods outlined in this chapter to prewrite on the
topic “Discuss your short-term goals, long-term goals, or both.” As you
prewrite, consider all the factors that surround those goals. What are
the goals? Are they new goals or lifelong ambitions? Is goal setting
easy for you because you have practiced it all your life, or is it difficult
because you have not been a goal-oriented person? What is the
nature of your goals? Are they academic goals, career goals, physical
goals, spiritual goals, or family goals? How do you plan to reach
them? How are they related to one another? How will they change
your life?
What Now?
After you have completed your prewriting, decide which goals you
want to focus on. Recall that you can discuss long-term goals, short-
