If you happened to have stumbled upon this website and ended up on this article, you are probably a first year composition student. We know it can be a little overwhelming with transitioning from high school to college, but we promise you it’s not going to be easy. That’s if, you decide to procrastinate on your essays. Don’t worry, we’ve all been there, it’s college and you have to make mistakes in order to learn from them. Remember, there’s no time to waste. Know that if you

As a first year college student, when I was told to write an essay to other struggling students here at UTRGV, I didn’t even have an idea of my what own struggles were. When I failed a class last semester, it was the first time I had ever failed a class in all my years of education. Realizing the real issues I encountered of why I had failed and contemplating the situation with my partner now, we both agreed we had similar problems in the past and we decided to write about ti

“How can first year composition (FYC) science students learn to effectively present their research to a general audience?” We are hoping to find the answer to this question and investigate why FYC science students often have difficulty when conveying information to individuals in non-science fields. Through our experiences as science majors, we have identified a central aspect of this problem: students often lack the ability to compose cohesive research because they have not

Optimistic. Nostalgic. 1302 Rhetoric and Composition students, take lead on an extensive research, to find out what they had missed. Now eager to spread out the truth behind reading more than assigned. By Carolina Pavon, Andrew Martinez & Alexa Sanchez March 24,2016 How does extra-curricular reading for first year composition students affect their overall writing? It may be true that there are many beneficial ways to improve one's writing by simply reading a book. Alth

One of the hardest things to do in college as an FYC student is to be able to work in groups efficiently. There’s always that one student, or team mate, that relies on the other people to do all the work.We are gonna refer to these people as , “Loafers”, because they just lay around doing nothing helpful and it’s just so frustrating watching them do nothing. You may think this isn’t a real problem, or maybe you just haven’t experienced it yet. But look back to group work th

At some point throughout our first year of college we all get to go through some struggles due to the changing teaching methods college professors use. However, perhaps one of the most common struggles we have as first year college students and first year composition (FYC) is that of when it comes to having to read pdf articles or any online texts. Many times when we as students begin our first year composition courses we find ourselves having a hard time understanding materi

Vanessa Aguila Stephanie Arechiga Kaylin White Professor Bonnie Garcia Letter to a Freshman Hey! It's your first day in college, you step onto this big college campus which is where you will spend another four years or so and begin to build your future. You look down at your class schedule and see English 1301, uh oh. I bet you are thinking that you’re unprepared to write a college level essay. You might feel as if all those twelve years of elementary, middle school, and high

How time changed our question Our question is, “What are the most effective learning techniques that UTRGV English 1302 students should use when they are studying to be successful?” In our data, we saw how both of us had different ways to learn; even though, we have the same majors. For example, my partner, Robert, learns better by studying in small of groups. While, I learn by reviewing by myself. We were able to find a pattern between our studying habits and our grades. The

First Year Composition Students’ Voices We go through most of our primary and secondary education being told how to write. We were taught to follow guidelines and were graded on our ability to do so. We go into college thinking that these guidelines still remain, yet all that changes our first year. College should be a time for us to be objective and speak up not to be close minded. In college we are expected to write the way professors want us to in order to pass and that's

Why Do online First Year Composition Students Procrastinate? Distant learning students procrastinate on research papers because their attention is not focused on school work, but the activities that are entertaining to them. We felt that this issue needed to be explored because distant learning and online learning is a fairly new topic amongst society that is barely being accepted. It is an alternative form of learning usually online, or at home. Why is it that distant learn