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

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