Optional Practice Outline for a Basic Essay
Overview
To help you prepare your essay, you may choose to complete this template, which breaks-down the essay into its
component parts. If you use this, be sure to copy and paste the parts of your essay into a clean empty new document
before you submit your essay at W04 Application Activity: Basic Essay.
Instructions
Write your three-paragraph basic essay in response to the writing prompt below. First write the parts of the essay in
the appropriate order. Then paste the essay parts all together. Look at the sample at the bottom of this document to
see how this is done.
Writing Prompt
Your essay should respond to the following prompt: What is one thing you can do to overcome a specific thinking
error? Note: This should be one of the ten thinking errors from the lesson.
Step 1: Write Your Essay
Introductory Paragraph
1. Heading: Your heading should include your name, instructors name, course name and due date.
Sam kabongo
Sister brems
PC 101 Life skills
February, 22,2025
2. Title: The title should be applicable to the topic, centered on the page, located beneath the heading but
before first paragraph.
What is one thing you can do to overcome a specific thinking error?
3. Hook: Draw the reader in and give adequate context to the essay topic.
Many people in this world they make wrong and bad decisions cause by thinking error of stress.
Imagine few couple of marriage people starts happy family they both laugh together and cry together
and every look perfect in their family. One day the husband comes home with different reaction that it
new to his family. The wife was trying to straight up the situation but he decided t he wanted to give up
his family. He think that his is a failure and he never be going to be success in this life. His children and
family even his friend will think that he is a failure. Joseph was struggle with thinking error and one day
he heard his wife pray not for her but for him to overcome thinking error by having a growth mindset
when he fail.
Thesis Statement: Indicate the controlling idea of the essay and outline the controlling idea of the body
paragraph.
He decided to have growth mindset and ask for his wife to help him to accomplish and
overcomemistake instead of thinking that he never going to be success. Thomas Edison
had said” Many of life’s failure are people who did not realize how close they were to
success in life and they give up. As Joseph going through the same situation all because
of his thinking error to call himself failure and decide not toface the challenge and keep
pushing toward success and continue the happy life he had before. Having a positive wife
beside me make a growth mindset to walk along with me in the path of my mistake to
strength myself t avoids thinking error as a reason to give up my success.
Body Paragraph
1. Topic Sentence: This should state a single controlling idea for the whole paragraph.
Many people in this world they make wrong and bad decisions cause by thinking error of
stress.
2. Supporting Detail: This should be a fact, expert testimony, statistics, or personal experience that directly
supports the topic sentence.
He decided to have growth mindset and ask for his wife to help him to accomplish
and overcomemistake instead of thinking that he never going to be success. Thomas
Edison had said” Many of life’s failure are people who did not realize how close they
were to success in life and they give up. As Joseph going through the same situation
all because of his thinking error to call himself failure and decide not toface the
challenge and keep pushing toward success and continue the happy life he had
before. Having a positive wife beside me make a growth mindset to walk along with
me in the path of my mistake to strength myself t avoids thinking error as a reason
to give up my success.
3. Concluding Sentence: This should provide closure by revisiting the supporting details shared and
reinforcing the controlling idea of the paragraph.
Thinking failure can lead us to continue to give up our success that we nearly get and turn
it to worse and pain in this journey of life. .
Concluding Paragraph
1. Revisit/Close: Revisit the ideas/themes in the essay and provide closure.
Thinking failure can lead us to continue to give up our success that we nearly get and turn
it to worse and pain in this journey of life. I was be able to handle and accomplish this
hard failure life because of a understanding wife that a always by my side to motivate and
remind me that I will become success if learn to think positive but not negative
Step 2: Assemble the Essay (Using the 6 Areas of Formatting from the lesson)
Copy and paste the pieces of your essay in the order you wrote them above into a three-
paragraph essay here. Don’t forget to indent each of the three paragraphs. See the sample at the
bottom of this document to see how this is done.
Sam kabongo
Sister brems
PC 101 Life skills
February, 22,2025
What is one thing you can do to overcome a specific thinking error?
Many people in this world they make wrong and bad
decisions cause by thinking error of stress. Imagine few couple of
marriage people starts happy family they both laugh together and
cry together and every look perfect in their family. One day the
husband comes home with different reaction that it new to his
family. The wife was trying to straight up the situation but he
decided t he wanted to give up his family. He think that his is a
failure and he never be going to be success in this life. His children
and family even his friend will think that he is a failure. Joseph was
struggle with thinking error and one day he heard his wife pray not
for her but for him to overcome thinking error by having a growth
mindset when he fail.
He decided to have growth mindset and ask for his wife
to help him to accomplish and overcomemistake instead of thinking
that he never going to be success. Thomas Edison had said” Many
of life’s failure are people who did not realize how close they were to
success in life and they give up. As Joseph going through the same
situation all because of his thinking error to call himself failure and
decide not toface the challenge and keep pushing toward success and
continue the happy life he had before. Having a positive wife beside
me make a growth mindset to walk along with me in the path of my
mistake to strength myself t avoids thinking error as a reason to give
up my success.
Thinking failure can lead us to continue to give up our success that
we nearly get and turn it to worse and pain in this journey of life. I
was be able to handle and accomplish this hard failure life because
of a understanding wife that a always by my side to motivate and
remind me that I will become success if learn to think positive but
not negative
Step 1: Write Your Essay
Introductory Paragraph
1. Heading: Your heading should include your name, instructors name, course name and due date.
John Doe
Sister Smith
PC 101 Life Skills
March 1, 2022
2. Title: The title should be applicable to the topic, centered on the page, located beneath the heading but
before first paragraph.
Thinking Errors and Growth Mindset
3. Hook: Draw the reader in and give adequate context to the essay topic.
People can make really bad decisions when they have a lot of stress. Imagine a runner
who is competing in a race with other runners. In the first kilometer, he trips on a rock
and falls. He is not injured very much, but he decides to quit the race because he is the
only runner who tripped on the rock. This runner illustrates the thinking error called
“giving up.” He gives up because he made a mistake and he figures he must not be good
enough to run the race.
4. Thesis Statement: Indicate the controlling idea of the essay and outline the controlling idea of the body
paragraph.
I struggle with giving up, and I can overcome this thinking error by having a growth
mindset when I fail.
Body Paragraph
1. Topic Sentence: This should state a single controlling idea for the whole paragraph.
If I have a growth mindset when I fail, I will learn from my mistakes instead of using
them as an excuse to give up.
2. Supporting Detail: This should be a fact, expert testimony, statistics, or personal experience that directly
supports the topic sentence.
Carol Dweck, in her book Mindset, says that people with a fixed mindset see their
failures as a “direct measure of their competence and worth.” When I fail, I stop trying
because I feel worthless. However, Dweck says people with a growth mindset do not
label themselves when they fail. Rather, they confront challenges and keep working on
them because they want to grow in spite of the growing pains. I would rather learn than
lose the opportunity to grow.
3. Concluding Sentence: This should provide closure by revisiting the supporting details shared and
reinforcing the controlling idea of the paragraph.
Having a growth mindset like this will help me use mistakes as a path to strength instead
as a reason to give up.
Concluding Paragraph
1. Revisit/Close: Revisit the ideas/themes in the essay and provide closure.
Giving up may seem like it keeps a person from the pain of failure, but it just makes
things worse. If I have a growth mindset, I will be able to handle failure better because I
will be motivated to learn from my mistakes.
Step 2: Assemble the Essay
Copy and paste the pieces of your essay in the order you wrote it above into a three-paragraph
essay here. Don’t forget to indent each of the three paragraphs. See the sample at the bottom of
this document to see how this is done.
John Doe
Sister Smith
PC 101 Life Skills
March 1, 2022
Thinking Errors and Growth Mindset
People can make really bad decisions when they have a lot of stress. Imagine a runner
who is competing in a race with other runners. In the first kilometer, he trips on a rock and falls.
He is not injured very much, but he decides to quit the race because he is the only runner who
tripped on the rock. This runner illustrates the thinking error called “giving up.” He gives up
because he made a mistake and he figures he must not be good enough to run the race. I struggle
with giving up, and I can overcome this thinking error by having a growth mindset when I fail.
If I have a growth mindset when I fail, I will learn from my mistakes instead of using
them as an excuse to give up. Carol Dweck, in her book Mindset, says that people with a fixed
mindset see their failures as a “direct measure of their competence and worth.” When I fail, I
stop trying because I feel worthless. However, Dweck says people with a growth mindset do not
label themselves when they fail. Rather, they confront challenges and keep working on them
because they want to grow in spite of the growing pains. I would rather learn than lose the
opportunity to grow. Having a growth mindset like this will help me use mistakes as a path to
strength instead as a reason to give up.
Giving up may seem like it keeps a person from the pain of failure, but it just makes
things worse. If I have a growth mindset, I will be able to handle failure better because I will be
motivated to learn from my mistakes.