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