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Reconceiving A Necessary Evil: Teaching A Transferable Fyc Research Paper, Samuel James Dunn
Reconceiving A Necessary Evil: Teaching A Transferable Fyc Research Paper, Samuel James Dunn
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The place of the research paper in first-year composition (FYC) courses is often debated in composition forums. Many argue that the a-disciplinary nature of FYC doesn't allow instructors to teach the research paper in a way that will be transferable to disciplinary writing tasks, while others say that it is possible, as long as we have a thorough understanding of the kinds of writing tasks students will face in the disciplines and specifically teach writing skills that will be transferable. To identify these more generalizable writing skills to be emphasized, I interviewed 14 professors at Brigham Young University from different …