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    Students' Attitudes Toward And Valuation of First-Year Composition (FYC) as Predictors of Students' English 101 Success

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    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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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4994
    Subject
     Higher education; Pedagogy; Adult education; Attitudes; Composition; Predictors; Students; Success; Valuation 
    Date
    2015
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    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.)

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    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. March 04, 2021.
    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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