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

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

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