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

Writing students were busy collaborating to generate ideas this week! Check out this week’s writers at work!

We're looking for photo submissions of your weekly experiences and work in ENG 1301 and ENG 1302! Here's you chance to contribute to a collective of experiences and knowledge and explore what other's are doing around you! We'll be producing a weekly post every friday that chronoicals the work that students in the writing program at utpa have done during the week. submissions of board work, mapping, students at work are all possibilities! To submit for Friday's weekly post

image by Fernando Estevan This is collective of just some of the work being developed by students in their first year of writing at UTPA as well as those working closely with them toward developing bigger and we hope better understandings of writing. We’re just getting started, but we have big hopes for this space! So let’s get to it! Students! If you’re interested in featuring your work here please email your submissions to bmgarciaz@utpa.edu. What will we take? Your op