Imagine yourself sitting in high school, and your teacher assigns a very interesting book for homework. You may or may not love reading, but as soon as she says "homework," your mind shuts off. You are no longer interested in even opening the cover of the book. Many students refuse to read anything that is assigned for homework. I believe this is true; however, I think it is more important to identify this trait in students. Identifying it allows teachers to help the afflicte

It all started in high school where I began to procrastinate with all my homework and put off studying. I was a student athlete and would always come home drained. All I wanted to do was rest and watch Netflix at any chance I got. I always knew I had homework due the next day or a test, but I would always put it off. When it seemed like I had time to do homework, I would delay doing it by thinking that I'll do it in 30 minutes or in an hour. However, I would not do it until i

Is writing worth all your time and stress? You're probably thinking, "Nah, I got better things to do," or you could be on the opposite end that believes, "Yes, writing is essential to the success of being a university student". Whichever student you are, you have some prior experience with procrastination, that God-awful word. Procrastination has several meanings for students. It can be from putting off an assignment until the very last minute of that 11:59 P.M. deadline or w

“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

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

Perla Garza Roberto Hernandez Ms. Bonnie Garcia Learning What the Mind Needs How time changed our question For our research paper, my partner and I are going to address the following question: “What are the most effective learning techniques that UTRGV English 1302 students should use when they are studying to be successful?” The data that we will use to answer our question will be the studying techniques that we used to prepare for an exam or laboratory report and the score

Many different researchers have addressed different problems that have risen when conducting primary research. Dorothy Williams and Louisa Coles from The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK talked about teachers and the problems they face when conducting and using their research. “Teachers’ strategies and confidence in their abilities to find, evaluate and use research information,” was low because “limiting the use of research information, exacerbat[ed] the perceived chal

By Noel Barajas After conducting research on October 22nd, 2014 at the University of Texas Pan-American a student by the name of Noel Barajas found that even though First Year College English students were doing amazing in revision, they hadn’t learned how to revise until the beginning of their college semester. Noel stated,” a major problem with students is they are not learning from their teachers because teachers are not teaching the importance of proper revision in high

by Mauricio Garza Download the Calendar to Success here ! “Nombre miss, I do not understand!” That is what an ESL (English as Second Language) student normally says in their classrooms when asked to read. Having been an ESL student at Sharyland High School, I decided to investigate in depth what the major factors were that made it hard for ESL students to read and came up with a reading calendar that will keep students from running away from the prob