DISCUSS WHY OR WHY NOT YOU CURRENTLY LIVE AS MARK CUBAN DESCRIBES, “DOING WHAT YOU WANT, WHEN YOU WANT, HOW YOU WANT.”

Composition Exercise #1

Topic For Composition Exercise #1:

DISCUSS WHY OR WHY NOT YOU CURRENTLY LIVE AS MARK CUBAN DESCRIBES, “DOING WHAT YOU WANT, WHEN YOU WANT, HOW YOU WANT.” ALSO IN YOUR EXERCISE DISCUSS WHICH ONE OF ANTON KRIEL’S TEN “SECRETS” YOU FIND MOST USEFUL AND HOW YOU CAN APPLY SAID SECRET TO YOUR OWN LIFE.

Quote from the videos. Include three or four quotes. Please be detailed in your discussion and try to reach the 500-word requirement. You may go over 500 words. Remember the more you personalize your writing the more powerful it reads so use the pronoun I.

Please watch the videos below on YouTube. These will be the research material for the first composition exercise. You’ll quote from them as you respond to the topic for week four.

Mark Cuban on the FIRE Movement: Financial Independence, Retire Early

10 Secrets to Achieve Financial Success

This is an interview with trading educator Anton Kriel.

I suggest you watch both interviews at least a couple of times before you write your first exercise which is due week four. We always miss important and interesting details when we watch or listen to something only once.

Composition Exercise Directions
I’ll score your composition exercises on a 4-point scale with a point for format, a point for content, a point for focus and a point for clarity.

For your composition exercises please write:

1. (format) a 500-word composition. Use Courier New, 12-point font and double space and MLA style.

2. (content) Your composition needs an answer and specific details for each question in the topic. Within your 500-word limit you must cite from the material you’ve read and/or watched to support your ideas. As Abraham Lincoln wrote, “It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.” Use two-three quotes from the sources in your composition to “fit” your interpretation of the material.

3. (focus) Stay focused on the topic. Everything you write should have a connection to the topic and your ideas.

4. (clarity) When you proofread check for common errors like fragments, run-on’s, commonly confused words, tense shift, subject-verb disagreement, spelling, etc. Try to adhere to the KISS Principle. This means keep your sentences short and simple and divide your composition into short easy to read paragraphs.