New York College Learning Skills Association

RTDE Issue Contents

Research and Teaching
in Developmental Education

Volume 16, Issue 2, Spring 2000

Going to the Source: Research Paper Writing Experience
By Theresa Rooney, York College/CUNY

Abstract

In this study, first year students experience and knowledge about research paper writing were probed to investigate how strongly the process writing movement has influenced instructional practice, and how appropriately students have been prepared for their college experience. The findings revealed many of the students arrived at college without the experience of writing even one extensive research paper. One major implication from this study is that for the most part, the process writing movement has had little impact on the ways students in this sample experienced the research paper writing process.