First-Year Writers' Quiz

The main goal of Young Scholars in Writing is to promote scholarly inquiry and understanding of writing among first-year students in composition courses.

Some barriers faced by first-year writers include lack of background and understanding of scholarly inquiry.

The purpose of providing a separate arena for first-year writing is to ensure it doesn't go unnoticed among extensive work from other students or undergraduates.

<p>Three accepted submissions were edited by experienced faculty advisers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Four first-year writers have demonstrated impressive intellectual work.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide undergraduate writers with challenging, rigorous research that contributes to the profession's discussions on writing and writing theory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Work that fits the definition of the 'youngest' first-year students in the academic world, students in first-year composition courses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Discourse, literacy, language age, rhetoric, composition, and writing styles.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because first-year writers face exponentially greater barriers than juniors and seniors, often lacking background in the field they're writing in and not far along in understanding the act of scholarly inquiry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Students not only teaching and asking students to produce scholarly inquiry, but also making the subject of writing itself in various fields.</p> Signup and view all the answers