First-Year Composition Program Research
CLICK HERE for a profile of UTK’s First-Year Composition Program appearing in the journal Composition Forum and co-authored by Jenn Fishman and Mary Jo Reiff
Several faculty and graduate students in RWL have been conducting studies of our first-year program. Below is a description of the studies, followed by links to further information:
- A cross-institutional research study (with University of Washington) into college students’ transfer of prior genre knowledge into FYC (Mary Jo Reiff and Bill Doyle, Principal Investigators): http://utuwpriorgenre.blogspot.com/
- The Embodied Literacies Project’s two-year investigation into first- and second-year students’ transfer of rhetorical knowledge across academic writing situations and media (Jenn Fishman and Stacey Pigg, Principal Investigators, YI; Jenn Fishman and Mary Jo Reiff, Principal Investigators, Y2): http://el-utk.blogspot.com
- A survey-based study of how students perceive the transferability of FYC research skills, entitled “Perceptions and Performance of Research and Writing in English 102” (Principal Investigators Kirsten Benson and Mary Jo Reiff).