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Personal Responsibility

By: Joe Smith

GEN/200

12/20/2012

Marta Rodriguez Rivera

ABSTRACT

The following paper describes the principles of personal responsibility and how it can determine ones success within their academic career positively or negatively. By looking at how personal responsibility is applied through time management, participation, attendance and completion of assignment’s.

Personal Responsibility

The importance of responsibility can be weighed into many different answers and perspective’s. Responsibility is practiced in everything we do on a daily basis from working, parenting, being a spouse and being a student. Practicing the principles of time management, participation, attendance and by completing assignment’s on time will result in successful academic career. Not practicing these principles cause many college students to not be successful in their college careers. Education is import because it is the foundation to success for my life goals which are achieving my bachelors and graduate degrees, as well as having a progressive and successful career.

What Personal Responsibility Means

The concept of personal responsibility is broken up into two words, the first word being personal the second word responsibility. The definition according to “Merriam Webster’s Dictionary (2012)” for the word personal is “relating to an individual” and the definition for the word responsible is “quality or the state of being responsible”. By combining these two words together we create the most important character trait that is needed to be successful academically, professionally and personally because personal responsibility is the ability to take full ownership of ones actions whether there good or bad. As a student and employee being responsible is something that I take very seriously and has allowed me to be successful both professionally and personally.

Personal Responsibility and College Success

To be successful in college...