I. Title Page (Your name, SSN, date of submission)

II. Table of Contents

III. Personal Statement

A 5-10 page self-analysis of your accomplishments as an English major, to include the following sections:

A. Summary. Summarize how you satisfied (or did not satisfy) the program’s list of goals and objectives. Specify what evidence is provided for each goal and objective and what the evidence shows about the satisfaction of each goal and objective. In addition, we encourage you to show how the major helped you achieve other objectives that are important to you, but that are not listed in the program. If you did not achieve a specific goal or objective, make a good-faith effort to discuss why that goal or objective was not achieved and the extent to which this gap may affect your post-baccalaureate goals.

B. Critique of the English Major. State what you found to be of greatest value in the English major and make suggestions for changes in the curriculum. You may wish to refer to the Course Analysis (see below) to support your conclusions.

C. Future Goals and Plans. Describe your future goals and plans and how the English major relates to those plans.

IV. Course Analyses. Provide a one-page analysis of what you learned from each upper-division course you took, especially learning related to the department’s goals and objectives. We recommend that you write this analysis immediately after each course is completed.

V. Evidence for the Satisfaction of Goals and Objectives. Present evidence for the satisfaction of each of the following goals in the following forms:

Goal I. One sample paper from one course that fulfills Goal I.

Goal II. The best paper from a class that fulfills Goal II; this paper will not be used as evidence to fulfill any other goal.

Goal III. One paper from 300 or from any other upper-division literature course in which particular literary approaches were elicited.

Goal V. Multiple drafts of the same project or one paper in final form that has undergone multiple drafts.