Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ519840
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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Why Do I Have to Be Here? The Advanced Placement Student in First-Year Composition: Problems and Issues in Cognitive Development.
Henderson, Sarah
Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, v7 n1 p324-32 Fall 1995
This article discusses the resistance of many students who have taken Advanced Placement English in high school to college freshman-year English composition requirements. Concepts of adherence and opposition to authority are applied to help understand these students. Recommendations for helping these students develop their thinking and writing are offered. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Placement, Advanced Students, Cognitive Development, College Curriculum, College Freshmen, Compliance (Psychology), Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Negative Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Student Attitudes, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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