Students' Attitudes Toward And Valuation of First-Year Composition (FYC) as Predictors of Students' English 101 Success
Author
Strickland, Whitney Larrimore
Abstract
This study investigates first-year composition students' attitudes toward and valuation of first-year composition (English 101) to learn which variable, attitudes or valuation, has a relationship with students' first-year composition success. The study uses a mixed methods approach involving a survey instrument and focus groups to elicit quantitative and qualitative data from student participants. Only first-year compositions students enrolled in English 101 at Methodist University, a four-year liberal arts institution located in Fayetteville, NC, participated in the study. Study findings suggest attitudes, not valuation, shares a relationship with students' FYC success. Further findings suggest self-efficacy and locus of control, writing apprehension (anxiety), instructors' personalities, and instructors' course delivery affect students' FYC success.
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Date
2015
Citation:
APA:
Strickland, Whitney Larrimore.
(January 2015).
Students' Attitudes Toward And Valuation of First-Year Composition (FYC) as Predictors of Students' English 101 Success
(Doctoral Dissertation, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship.
(http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4994.)
MLA:
Strickland, Whitney Larrimore.
Students' Attitudes Toward And Valuation of First-Year Composition (FYC) as Predictors of Students' English 101 Success.
Doctoral Dissertation. East Carolina University,
January 2015. The Scholarship.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4994.
April 24, 2024.
Chicago:
Strickland, Whitney Larrimore,
“Students' Attitudes Toward And Valuation of First-Year Composition (FYC) as Predictors of Students' English 101 Success”
(Doctoral Dissertation., East Carolina University,
January 2015).
AMA:
Strickland, Whitney Larrimore.
Students' Attitudes Toward And Valuation of First-Year Composition (FYC) as Predictors of Students' English 101 Success
[Doctoral Dissertation]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University;
January 2015.
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East Carolina University