by Sylvia Perez Sylvia Perez won last years Distinguished Speakers Essay Contest. In the essay below Perez describers her process for writing the essay that won her the oppurtunity to have dinner with the award-winning journalist & author Laura Ling. On the night of September 19, 2014 I sat down at my dining room table and stared at a prompt for an essay contest. The winner would personally meet and have dinner with journalist and author Laura Ling. This was the prompt:

By Melanie Leo Transforming Your Essay by Using One Basic Technique Every writer would love to see a huge “A+” on their essay assignments, however, how would they achieve that grade? A simple writing tool can transform their essay into a greater one. Writing an essay is no easy task to do, especially when you are unsure of where to start and what to write. Rough drafting is a technique in which you put down your ideas in an essay and edit it from there; it is widely u

by Laura E. Gonzalez Download The Survival Guide to Writing Enabling students to understand writing through their perspective Laura E. Gonzalez has developed a solution for students that struggle with writing based on their personality and she calls it a Survival Guide to Writing. She has been interested in the past couple of years in the learning approaches with regards to writing. While she has observed that there are many writing instructors that claim they have

By Bertha Alyssa Villarreal How Lack of sleep can hinder academic writing performance Bertha Alyssa Villarreal, a college sophomore attending the University of Texas-Pan American has recently uncovered a negative correlation between the lack of sleep and academic writing performance in college students. She decided to create a video to provide students with the knowledge that lack of sleep affects academic writing. Throughout the month of October in 2014, at the UTPA cam

By Kassandra Montes Download the Game and Instructions Here Students with ADHD are not being taught effectively Kassandra Montes a student at the University of Texas Pan-American created an interesting game to help children with ADHD become better readers. Kassandra conducted a research study in which she observed and interviewed a 10 year old boy with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). She was looking at how he has difficulties while reading and underst

By Jorge Pina Visit MusiClear I developed a website called MusiClear that can benefit many UTPA students when it comes to writing essays. I developed this website after noticing that many of my fellow classmates and other college-goers face writer's block. Writer’s block is the inability to create any new work and it’s something that is very common when it comes to writing. I conducted an experiment with several UTPA freshmen. I also selected 5 general music genres: Bl