This progress report assignment is a tool for reflecting on your educational and professional development in a business reporting style, while helping you to set and reach academic and career goals.

The process of writing this progress report will allow you to:

• define what is important to you in terms of your educational, and professional goals
• understand how you learn, the strengths you currently have to help you achieve your goals, and areas of potential development
• create a realistic strategy for achieving your goals
• begin the process of ongoing academic and professional development

Write a progress report which includes the following sections:

1. INTRODUCTION

Briefly introduce yourself

• Your name, student number and program of study
• Your previous studies, degrees, diplomas, credentials

1. REFLECTION ON LEARNING

What have you learned this semester?

• What information learned in this course was new?
• What information from this course do you think will be particularly useful in the future for your career or further studies?
• What information from this course has changed your perspective in some way?

1. GOALS FOR THE FUTURE

Reflect on your academic and professional goals

• In what profession would you ultimately like to see yourself? Be specific.
• How will you apply what you have learned in effective writing to your future profession?
• How long do you anticipate it will take to reach your goals? Be specific for each one of your goals.

1. PERFORMANCE REVIEW

In which academic areas do you excel? In what areas of effective writing are you doing well? Provide at least 1 example of a specific success in this course.

Which areas need further development? In what areas of effective writing are you struggling or not seeing hoped for results? - Provide at least 1 example of a specific struggle or less than desirable results in this course.

• What could you have done differently in this situation to have achieved a different result?
• What is your current grade point average in this course? In the program?
• What is your desired grade in this course? In the program? (be sure these are achievable based on your current grades)

1. IMPROVEMENT PLAN

How do you plan to improve in the areas you have identified as a struggle or are producing less than desirable results?

How will you achieve your desired grade in this course? What grades do you need to achieve in the remaining assignments to meet your desired grade overall?

In order to increase your grades and/or achieve your desired results what will you start doing and what will you stop doing that may be affecting this achievement?