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Lukeman, Howard. "First Year Student Essays in Humanities and Social Sciences." Australian and International Journal of Rural Education 2, no. 2 (July 1, 1992): 37–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.47381/aijre.v2i2.367.
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This article suggests that a major factor in students' struggle with style and structure in essays in Humanities and Social Science subjects is their misunderstanding of the central assumptions and conventions held by their lecturers about essay writing. It illustrates some of the central issues lying behind this misunderstanding by analysing work done in the Learning Skills Centre at Charles Sturt University (Riverina).
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Desmet, Christy, Deborah Church Miller, June Griffin, Ron Balthazor, and Robert E. Cummings. "Reflection, Revision, and Assessment in First-Year Composition ePortfolios." Journal of General Education 57, no. 1 (January 1, 2008): 15–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27798088.
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Abstract Does revision of graded essays for an electronic protfolio improve First-Year Composition students' scores from anonymous raters? In a sample of 450 paired essays, 46 percent improved by one or more points on a six-point scale, 28 percent remained the same, and 26 percent declined by one or more points.
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MacDonald, Heather. "First-year Student Essays Shed Light on their Experience of ACRL Framework Threshold Concepts." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 14, no. 4 (December 12, 2019): 168–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/eblip29614.
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Dempsey, P. R., & Jagman, H. (2016). I felt like such a freshman: First-year students crossing the library threshold. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 16(1), 89-107. https:doi.org/10.1353/pla.2016.0011
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Objective – To synthesize student narratives on searching for an item in the library and to identify information literacy threshold concepts students encountered during their searching.
Design – Constant comparative analysis.
Setting – Academic library at an urban American university.
Subjects – A sample of 97 1-to-2 page ungraded first year student essays.
Methods – A library assignment was developed for first year students in a required academic skills course. Students wrote the essay for peer mentors. After completing the essay, students were asked if they wanted to participate in the study. For the assignment, students were asked to find a library item of interest and write a reflective essay on the process. Essays were analyzed using NVIVO software. The researchers developed codes independently, then came together to review, discuss and recode the essays. Using the constant comparison method, themes were identified from the coding. Narrative analysis was used to understand the coding in the context of the students’ experiences.
Main Results – The authors outlined various search paths that the students described in their essays. The main emotional responses in the essays were surprise, confusion, and excitement. Three ACRL Framework IL concepts were identified in the analysis: Scholarship as Conversation, Searching as Strategic Exploration, and Research as Inquiry. Scholarship as a Conversation was exemplified through students’ selection of a library item. Students chose topics that were of academic interest or associated with personal identity. In the essays, students explained their connection to the item they found, making the connection to the ongoing scholarly conversation. Searching as Strategic Exploration was expressed through student descriptions of connecting the call number to the subject classifications. Some students sailed through, whereas others encountered challenges. Some found that previous library mental models failed, found the catalogue overwhelming, or thought the organization of material was at fault rather than their own skills. Some students described how they overcame their challenges. Students also discussed balancing self-reliance and seeking help when searching for an item. This related to the ACRL frames of Research as Inquiry and Searching as Strategic Exploration. Attitudes on seeking help ranged from complete reliance to anxiety.
Conclusion – This library assignment offered students the opportunity to pursue their own interests and goals. It also encouraged exploration, problem-solving, and reflection. The assignment design allowed students to grapple with information literacy threshold concepts in a safe and independent environment, demonstrating learning and engagement with academia.
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Alfaruqy, Doni, Harits Setyawan, and Tefur Nur Rohman. "Exploring First-Year EFL Students’ Problems in Essay Writing." ELE Reviews: English Language Education Reviews 2, no. 1 (May 31, 2022): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.22515/elereviews.v2i1.4453.
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Writing has been considered the most difficult skill to master by EFL university students. It needs more effort and time for mastery. Some challenges in writing can make students confused. This condition has inspired the researchers to conduct the study. The study aims to identify the common errors in first-year students’ essay writing and provide suggestive solutions for the problems encountered by the students. This study was implemented using quantitative and qualitative approaches (mixed method). The researchers analyzed 205 students’ essays to identify the writing errors. After that, they randomly interviewed selected students to find the specific problems and suggestions. The data gathered were then classified and analyzed thematically. Based on the analyzed data, the most frequent error was faulty sentences which was 60.41%, grammar as the second error was 16.88%, the third error was mechanics with 13.1%, and vocabulary and other errors were 5.38% and 4.22%. The result shows that most students got difficulty writing sentences correctly. Therefore, providing appropriate learning materials for students and giving feedback on their writing are suggested.
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Norton, Lin, Rebecca Clifford, Laurence Hopkins, Istra Toner, and Bill (J C. W. ). Norton. "Helping Psychology Students Write Better Essays." Psychology Learning & Teaching 2, no. 2 (June 2002): 116–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/plat.2002.2.2.116.
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The paper reports on an intervention to help psychology students write better essays by using an Essay Feedback Checklist (EFC). A sample of first year and third year psychology students were asked to rate their own essays in terms of how confident they felt they had been in meeting the departmental assessment criteria. Tutors used the same rating scale when marking the essays and used any mismatches between their rating and that of the student to target their feedback. The aims of the study were to look at the effects of using the EFC in i) writing an essay and ii) clarifying written tutor feedback. Findings showed some mismatches between students and their tutors particularly in the third year. Students were mainly positive about the EFC, although some comments indicated that more help was needed. The implications of these findings are discussed in terms of an action research framework and student self-assessment.
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Dixon, Felicia, Jerrell Cassady, Tracy Cross, and David Williams. "Effects of Technology on Critical Thinking and Essay Writing Among Gifted Adolescents." Journal of Secondary Gifted Education 16, no. 4 (August 2005): 180–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.4219/jsge-2005-482.
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This article presents results of a study that compared critical thinking in two writing samples (essays) from gifted adolescents who attended a residential school. The essays were written at the beginning of the junior year (when students were admitted to the school) and at the beginning of the senior year. All students in the study composed their first essay in handwritten form. On the second essay, some students were randomly assigned to a computer condition and composed their essays on the computer. Results demonstrated a gender-specific effect of using computers to compose essays. Boys using the computers produced significantly more words, sentences, and paragraphs than boys who did not use the computer to write and received higher ratings on a structured rubric. Girls scored the same in both conditions and performed consistently at a level on par with the boys using computers.
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Riddell, Jessica. "Performance, Feedback, and Revision: Metacognitive Approaches to Undergraduate Essay Writing." Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching 8 (June 12, 2015): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.22329/celt.v8i0.4256.
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This paper explores ways in which frequent feedback and clear assessment criteria can improve students’ essay writing performance in a first-year English literature course. Students (n = 68) completed a series of three scaffolded exercises over the course of a semester, where they evaluated undergraduate essays using a predetermined assessment process. They were then asked to write their own essays and evaluate them using the same assessment criteria. The efficacy of the project was evaluated based upon student feedback, both quantitative and qualitative, and an analysis of their marks. The essay-writing project was informed by fundamental principles supported by research in teaching and learning: namely, that early intervention in first-year courses helps students improve their essay-writing skills, clear and transparent expectations are crucial for positive student perceptions around learning, carefully scaffolded assignment help students develop their writing skills over time, and increasing the frequency of writing opportunities and feedback leads to higher learning outcomes. Findings suggest that a metacognitive approach to essay writing can provide significant opportunities for students to improve their essay-writing skills. The essay-writing project has implications for those who plan, support, and deliver first-year university courses, particularly those courses involving academic writing assignments.
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Sukarno. "THE ANALYSIS ON THE GRAMMATICAL ERRORS OF THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS ESSAYS." Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature 16, no. 1 (July 20, 2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.24167/celt.v16i1.488.
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A language learner often faces many linguistic differences, especially if the native language and the target language are from different language families. The current study investigates the grammatical errors made by the first year students of the English Department, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Jember, Indonesia. The data were collected from 30 participants essays of Writing 01 class (documentary data) conducted from August to December 2014. Having been identified, the errors were classified into various categorizations, and analyzed based on descriptive-interpretative method to find the possible sources of the errors. The research revealed that the learners committed ten types of grammatical errors, and the six mostly prominent errors were plural form, subject-verb agreement, verb tense, word form, subject/verb omission, and passive voice respectively. This research also showed that the errors mostly resulted from the different linguistic principles of Indonesian and English (interlingual transfer), and partly from the faulty of overgeneralization of English rules (intralingual transfer). The overt influences of Indonesian to English as well as the overgeneralization of English rules can provide the writing teachers and course designers with insightful guidelines for better understanding of the sources of errors, which in turn, can help them to apply the more appropriate approaches to manage the foreign language learners errors of the year students
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Bacha, Nahla N. "L1 Use in L2 Academic Essays: A Study of L1 Arabic Writers’ Views." International Journal of English Linguistics 8, no. 2 (December 23, 2017): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v8n2p15.
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Research findings indicate conflicting views as to interference from L1 rhetorical patterns in the essays written by students whose first language is not English. Essays are still considered important for required assignments and exams in institutions of higher learning, but the challenge for L1 Arabic students is to express their ideas clearly. Although there have been studies of the use of L1 in L2 writing, there are very few rigorous ones done on L1 Arabic texts in Lebanon and specifically from the students’ viewpoint. This study aims to evaluate, holistically and analytically, according to language, organization and content, the expository academic essays written by first year university L1 Arabic students and to examine any significant correlation between these scores and the quality of these essays through content analysis. In addition, students’ perceptions of any problems they have in writing the academic essay are surveyed through a questionnaire. Results indicate a significant positive correlation between students’ essay scores and the content analysis. However, findings from the student questionnaire revealed that they do not view any significant interference from L1 nor any significant problems in writing the academic essays which are contrary to the essay scores and content analysis results. Recommendations are made for L2 contexts and future research.
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Koppi, Tony, Elizabeth Nolan, and Damien Field. "Developing Transferable Research Skills in First Year Agricultural Economics Students." Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice 7, no. 2 (April 1, 2010): 81–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.53761/1.7.2.6.
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A problem-based learning approach was adopted for a unit of study in first year agricultural economics at the University of Sydney with the aim of starting development of students’ research skills earlier than usual. The novel teaching approach employed a structured and guided problem activity in the first semester and progressed to a more authentic problem activity in the second semester where the students worked in online peer groups to identify their own problem within a specified challenging area (market failure), carry out research and discuss findings prior to submitting an individual essay on their chosen topic. A structured learning journal with 10 questions was used in the second semester where the students recorded their reflections on a range of aspects of the learning process. None of the questions specifically asked about research yet 72% of the students mentioned it at least once. These learning journals were analysed for unsolicited comments about learning and research to gauge what the students themselves believed they had learned about research and how it can be transferred to other disciplines and future employment. The final essays were independently analysed by using eight research performance criteria to estimate the degree of research skills displayed by the students. Most of the students performed well in six of the research criteria indicating that development of research skills can be initiated in the first year of a degree program.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "First-year essays"
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Farida, Nevin. "A textual and contextual study of English language and literature essays : the case of First Year English Department students' writing in Dhaka University, Bangladesh." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1109/.
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This research examines English language and literature essays written by First Year students of the English Department at Dhaka University (Bangladesh) using multi-method genre analysis. The first method used was text analysis. Essay topics were analysed from the two contexts to identify their topic fields and main rhetorical functions. This helped develop the two models to analyse the structure of essays: an Exposition-Discussion model and a Description-Recount model. Then, a total of 100 essays from the two contexts were analysed on the basis of Move-strategy structure to see what structural patterns the essays possessed, what tactical choices the students took to express the moves and what was presented in terms of content matter within those moves. The second method was a questionnaire that was distributed to students in the department to discover their perceptions of the writing tasks given. And the third method was interviews conducted with teachers and students of the department to find out about their perceptions of student writing. This, then, is a genre-based study which draws both on written data and on interaction with community members. The multi-method approach to genre analysis revealed that students of the English Department write three different kinds of essays, Description-Recount language essays, Exposition-Discussion language essays and Exposition-Discussion literature essays. The study further revealed that although students wrote these different kinds of essays, they were unable to make connections between their language essay writing tasks and literature ones because of the disciplinary variations. Moreover, the literature essays were found to be much more challenging to write than the language ones. In the light of this, the need for a fourth type of essay writing is identified. This research contributes to the fields of applied linguistics and education in several ways. Firstly, the models developed not only give insights into the generic structure of the essays students write in the English Department at Dhaka University, but they could also function as a starting point for other researchers working with similar texts. Secondly, the analyses of the high and low grade essays explain how some features of writing are more highly valued than others in this context. Thirdly, the study has pedagogical implications that can benefit students and teachers who would use genre based approach to teaching language and literature essay writing. Fourthly, this research demonstrates a multi-method approach to genre analysis which brings out complementary and sometimes contradictory perspectives on the same written products. Fifthly, it can help university planners and policy makers to consider the relationship between main discipline courses and support courses and minimise any gaps. Finally, it can raise awareness among the global applied linguistics community about the kind of student writing produced in contexts such as the English Department of Dhaka University.
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Esambe, Emmanuel Ekale. "Formartive feedback and essay-writing practices for at-risk students." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1962.
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Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree Magister of Education in the Faculty of Education at the Cape Peninsula University of TechnologyThe core problematique of this study is to establish a collaborative intervention strategy as a model that could facilitate the design and dissemination of appropriate formative feedback during essay-writing practices with at risk ECP and first-year students.
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Hansler, Kathryn Marie. "Re-examining the personal narrative in first year composition." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2471.
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This thesis explores the current theories on the personal narrative (as a tool in teaching freshman composition) and examines the ways that this essay is now being used in first year courses at California State University, San Bernardino.
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Lewis, Rachel Devorah. "The Rhetorical Legacies of Affirmative Action: Bootstrap Genres from College Admissions through First-Year Composition." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193813.
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This project traces the ways universities articulate a desire for diversity through the gateway genres of college admissions, composition course placement, and first-year-composition (FYC). Together, these genres serve as points of access for a theoretical study that seeks to better understand the ideological function of writing programs to socialize borderline college applicants into the rhetorically constructed role of a Diverse College Student. I focus on what I call bootstraps genres--reoccurring rhetorical situations that call for students to recount social hardships like racism and classism as personal hardships to be overcome through personal heroics. Despite being immersed in rhetorics of individualism, the college application essay, the directed self-placement guide, and the literacy narrative all call for the mimetic construction of disadvantage as an appeal to college-readiness. As new college students move through the initiation rituals of admissions, orientation, and FYC, they are presented with rhetorical tasks that are both raced and classed. Bootstraps genres ask students to first read the university's desire for diversity and then fulfill that desire through personal stories of difference and disadvantage.
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Kalikokha, Chimwemwe. "The perceptions of a group of first year undergraduate Malawian students of the essay writing process." Click here to access this resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/396.
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The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of the essay writing process of first year undergraduates at Chancellor College (University of Malawi) and to a lesser extent those of the lecturers responsible for teaching academic skills. A mixed methods design, combining qualitative and quantitative techniques, was employed in order to obtain richer data for deeper understanding of the students’ writing process. Two hundred students from the humanities and social science faculties responded to a self-completion questionnaire towards the end of semester one. Based on the students’ responses, an open-ended questionnaire was administered to four full time English for Academic Purposes (EAP) instructors. Findings from this study indicate that most students find it very challenging to obtain sufficient and relevant source text information, paraphrase or summarise information, and use an appropriate academic writing style. As solutions to these challenges, the students suggested the need for timely essay writing instruction, availability of resources for essay writing, increased amount of time spent on essay writing instruction, and discipline specific instruction in essay writing. EAP instructors identified lack of teaching and learning materials, large EAP classes, and students’ negative attitude towards the EAP course, as some of the challenges they encounter when teaching the course. The EAP instructors proposed an increase in the number of staff members, making students aware of the significance of the EAP course at an early stage, and the availability of up to date resources, as some of the ways in which the teaching of the course can be improved. Overall, the findings seem to suggest that difficulties that students encounter during the writing process and teaching challenges that EAP instructors face, have great impact on students’ perception of academic writing as well as their approach to writing tasks. The findings also suggest a lack of dialogue between the students and their lecturers. This is evident in students’ unawareness of the nature of the writing demands of their lecturers and disciplines; students’ desire to have timely essay writing instruction; and the lecturers’ concerns about students’ negative attitude towards the EAP course.
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Watkinson, Hawthorne Janice. "Coherence breaks in first-year essays written by English second language (ESL) university students." Diss., 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17849.
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Writing coherent essays is evidence of a university student's discourse
competence and is important in terms of academic success. An analytical
taxonomy of coherence breaks {both topic-related and cohesion-related), based
on Wikborg (1985; 1990), was used to determine the frequency of coherence
breaks in essays written by first-year English Second Language (ESL) students.
A subset of these essays was selected for assessment of their holistic coherence
(HCR) by raters. The major finding of the statistical tests is that there is a
significant relationship between the frequency of coherence breaks, particularly
topic-related coherence breaks, and holistic coherence. Furthermore, the
relationship between the coherence of essays and marks awarded them was
established. Tutor intervention was also found to have had a positive impact
when draft and final versions were compared: in general, there was a decrease
in the frequency of coherence breaks, and a greater perception of coherence in
the final versions.Linguistics and Modern Languages
M.A. (Linguistics)
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Coetzer, Amanda. "Connecting expressions and verb phrases in the essay writing of first-year students : pedagogical implications for course design." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/3175.
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Thesis (Ph.D. (English Studies)) -- University of Limpopo, 2019The aims of the study were to compare connector use and verb phrase use between two achievement groups. The achievement groups comprised the Highs, students whose essays were highly rated (124 essays; word length 59702), and the Lows, students whose essays were rated poorly (126 essays; word length 60524). The analytical frameworks for the analysis of appropriate use were taken from Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad and Finegan (1999).The analytical frameworks for inappropriate use were designed by the researcher. Connectors comprised circumstance adverbials, linking adverbials, co-ordinators and relativisers. Verb phrase uses comprised all the categories described in Biber, et al. (1999). The analysis entailed counting number of occurrences per use for each achievement group and determining whether difference in use was significant or not by undertaking Log Likelihood calculations using Paul Rayson’s Log Likelihood calculator available online. These also indicate the relative frequency of each use. The results for appropriate connector use revealed that although no significant differences occurred with respect to connector categories, highly/significant differences did occur with regard to specific forms. Regarding inappropriate connector use, results showed that differences between the two achievement groups were overall highly significant, with a substantially higher occurrence of inappropriate uses in the Lows compared to the Highs. The results for appropriate verb phrase use revealed highly/significant differences between the Highs and Lows for several verb phrase categories, such as modal auxiliary use and Perfect Aspect. The results for inappropriate verb phrase use, as was the case for inappropriate connector use, showed highly significant differences between the two achievement groups, with the Lows having a much higher incidence of inappropriate uses than the Highs. The study finally considers the pedagogical implications arising from the results and makes suggestions for course design relating to writing instruction.
Books on the topic "First-year essays"
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Wedding cake for breakfast: Essays on the unforgettable first year of marriage. New York: Berkley Books, 2012.
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A, Stollenwerk Debra, ed. Surviving your first year of teaching: Guidelines for success. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Merrill, 1999.
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Kellough, Richard D. Surviving your first year of teaching: Guidelines for success. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Merrill/Prentice Hall, 2001.
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Kevin, Ryan, ed. The Roller coaster year: Essays by and for beginning teachers. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1991.
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W, Schram Peter, ed. Consequences of the Clinton victory: Essays on the first year. Ashland, Ohio: Ashbrook Press, 1994.
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(Editor), Eileen Donovan-Kranz, and Lad Tobin (Editor), eds. Fresh Ink (Essays from Boston College's First-Year Writing Seminar, 1996). College Custom Series, 1996.
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Fresh Ink: Essays from Boston College's First-Year Writing Seminar, 2002. McGraw-Hill, 2002.
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Fresh Ink: Essays from Boston College's First Year Writing Seminar, 1999. 5th ed. Primis, 1999.
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Kellough, Richard D. Surviving Your First Year of Teaching : Guidelines for Success (Student Enrichment Series), pb, 1998. Prentice Hall (Sd), 1998.
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Kellough, Richard D. Surviving Your First Year of Teaching : Guidelines for Success (Student Enrichment Series), pb, 1998. Prentice Hall (Sd), 1998.
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Carciaghi, Federico. "Un manifesto per la modernità: venti anni di Utopia e disincanto." In Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna, 373–83. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-338-3.28.
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The current essay aims to highlighting the importance of Magris’ Utopia e disincanto. The year of its first publication (1999) was a watershed moment in his career, as it paved the way to a new season of public engagement and historical analysis, which can be also seen in his later essays and novels. Twenty years later, Utopia e disincanto is still a manifesto for modernity, a deeply contemporary book where Magris’ analytical view is headed towards an idea of universal literature, an idea of Weltliteratur that should be a tool to understand the changes in which mankind is involved. Literature is meant to be a tool to investigate the dark sides hidden among the folds of History
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Coniam, David, and Peter Falvey. "The First Validation Study: Comparing OSM and PBM in English Language HKCEE (Year 11) Essays Using Classical Statistics and Rasch Measurement." In Validating Technological Innovation, 57–77. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0434-6_5.
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Gagliardi, Isabella. "Le vestigia dei gesuati." In Le vestigia dei gesuati, 13–38. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-228-7.04.
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The essay traces the salient historical steps of the Jesuat congregation, highlighting its genesis and development up to the year of its suppression (1668). The focus is on the dynamics triggered by the born of the Jesuat congregation, who grew on the border between the “church of the religious” and the “church of the laity”, and on the use of intellectual energies of the Jesuat friars, because they were directed towards defining and safeguarding their own religious identity. The latter had two focal points: the example of Giovanni Colombini, its first “father”, and, at the same time, the defence of the autonomy necessary to move interstitially between institutions, groups and movements. The historical parable of the Jesuats, in fact, clearly shows the importance assumed by the network of social relations for the constitution of the movement and for its progressive normalisation.
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Zaccarini, Maria Cristina. "First-Year College Students Connect With Citizens Returning From Incarceration Through Mindfulness." In Handbook of Research on Practices for Advancing Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education, 281–300. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9628-9.ch014.
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This chapter describes the ongoing work of the author, Professor Maria Cristina Zaccarini, of Adelphi University, and Network Support Services, a reentry organization based in New York. Students in Professor Zaccarini's class learn the koru method of mindfulness, and alumni of Network Support Services learn mindfulness while in prison and during their time of reentry as returning citizens. Students examine the works of mindful historical figures who are significant for the understanding of the links among economic, social, and other disadvantages and incarceration. Students interview network alumni and write 500-word essays with the aim of explaining the experiences of the alumni and then reflect on how these exercises shaped their understanding of mindfulness. Student work makes public the firsthand accounts of the network alumni, as it is published on the web.
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Ono, Masumi. "Approach to Writing from Readers’ Perspectives: Incorporating Self-Evaluation, Peer Feedback, and Self-Reflection into Academic Writing." In Higher Education - New Approaches to Globalization, Digitalization, and Accreditation [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.100308.
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In teaching academic writing, it is important that teachers encourage students to consider the expectations of readers, which vary depending on the genre and context of writing. Peer feedback, a collaborative learning method, provides students with opportunities to read peers’ writing and give and receive feedback. This study investigated the perceptions of first-year university students’ writing and revising academic essays through self-evaluation, peer feedback, and self-reflection. A total of 122 students wrote and evaluated the first drafts of their essays, read their peers’ essays to evaluate good and problematic areas, revised the drafts, and reflected on the peer feedback. The results indicated that self-evaluation enhanced students’ attention to readers’ expectations and that peer feedback was considered useful by the majority of them. While their essay scores and views on peer feedback did not correlate, the high-graded essay group appreciated peers’ comments on the essay organization. In contrast, the medium-graded group valued comments on the content, whereas the low-graded group viewed citation-related comments as useful. The results suggest that clear, specific, and critical feedback comments were received positively. Self-evaluation and peer feedback enhance students’ collaborative learning, analytical skills, and awareness of readers and their own writing.
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Hoock, Holger. "Introduction." In History, Commemoration and National Preoccupation. British Academy, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264065.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter first sets out the purpose of the book, which arose out of a symposium held at the British Academy in January 2006, on the weekend after the bicentenary of the state funeral of Admiral Lord Nelson at St Paul's Cathedral, and thus at the conclusion of a year which had seen hundreds of official, commercial, and popular events commemorating and celebrating the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar and the death of Nelson. The book assembles the revised versions of the papers delivered at the symposium along with three specially commissioned essays. An overview of these essays is presented.
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White, Eddy. "Teacher Self-Assessment of Feedback Practices in an EFL Academic Writing Class - A Reflective Case Study." In Innovative Practices for Higher Education Assessment and Measurement, 162–87. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0531-0.ch009.
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Unlike studies of teacher feedback on student writing, research into teacher self-assessment of their own feedback practices is quite rare in the assessment literature. In this reflective case study, the researcher/teacher systematically analyzed feedback practices to clearly determine the form and kind of formative feedback being provided on student essays, and also to compare these feedback practices to recommended practice from the feedback literature. The research took place in an academic English writing course for third-year students at a Japanese university. A close examination of the teacher feedback on the first draft of 21 student essays was undertaken, and more than 800 feedback interventions were identified and coded. Results of this investigation show a number of patterns of practice in giving feedback, including; extensive use of questions in teacher commentary, very limited use of praise comments, and varying amounts of feedback provided on individual essays. Results also show that the feedback practices discovered through this investigation align well with recommended best practice. The case study positions the teacher as ‘learner' in this feedback process, and calls for similar published research describing in detail what teachers do when providing feedback to students on their work.
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White, Eddy. "Teacher Self-Assessment of Feedback Practices in an EFL Academic Writing Class - A Reflective Case Study." In Learning and Performance Assessment, 1200–1224. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0420-8.ch057.
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Unlike studies of teacher feedback on student writing, research into teacher self-assessment of their own feedback practices is quite rare in the assessment literature. In this reflective case study, the researcher/teacher systematically analyzed feedback practices to clearly determine the form and kind of formative feedback being provided on student essays, and also to compare these feedback practices to recommended practice from the feedback literature. The research took place in an academic English writing course for third-year students at a Japanese university. A close examination of the teacher feedback on the first draft of 21 student essays was undertaken, and more than 800 feedback interventions were identified and coded. Results of this investigation show a number of patterns of practice in giving feedback, including; extensive use of questions in teacher commentary, very limited use of praise comments, and varying amounts of feedback provided on individual essays. Results also show that the feedback practices discovered through this investigation align well with recommended best practice. The case study positions the teacher as ‘learner' in this feedback process, and calls for similar published research describing in detail what teachers do when providing feedback to students on their work.
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Rambe, Patient. "Appraisal Theory." In Handbook of Research on Educational Technology Integration and Active Learning, 358–79. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8363-1.ch018.
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While Writing Centres provide dialogic spaces for student articulation of voice, they insufficiently deal with asymmetrical power relations built into expert-novice conversations, which potentially disrupt novices' democratic expression of their voices. Yet the conversational nature of Facebook presents opportunities for ESL students to express their voices. This chapter: 1) Employs draft essays of first-year ESL students submitted to a Writing Centre to unravel their challenges with asserting their voice, 2) Uses reflective narratives of Writing consultants and ESL students to understand how their English language acquisition is impacted by their appropriation of Facebook and 3) Unravels how Facebook complements the mandate of Writing Centres of developing the academic voice of students. Findings suggest that students lacked confidence in asserting their authorial presence and familiarisation with academic conventions. Students and consultants' essays demonstrated a balanced appropriation of attitudinal and judgement categories and engagement resources, with implications for the potential of Facebook to mediate student expression of their voice.
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Lee, Adam. "From Myth to Logos in Greek Studies." In The Platonism of Walter Pater, 87–116. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848530.003.0004.
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This chapter analyses Pater’s understanding of myth and its creation in his Greek Studies (1895). Although the book was published posthumously, the majority of its essays appeared within a five-year period, beginning in 1876 with ‘The Myth of Demeter and Persephone’ and ‘A Study of Dionysus’. Pater follows a three-stage mythopoeic process, beginning with the myths of the people, which are collected and organized by the poets, and finally sculpted into ethical archetypes, conveying the development from myth to logos. Apollo comes to exemplify the archetypal character for Pater, influenced by Plato’s reverence for the god as the embodiment of reason, light, sanity, and music. Around the time of these first studies on myth, in their account of how traditional stories are created and characters are formed, Pater first turns his hand to publishing fiction.
Conference papers on the topic "First-year essays"
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Palmer, John, Robert Williams, and Heinz Dreher. "Automated Essay Grading System Applied to a First Year University Subject - How Can We Do It Better?" In 2002 Informing Science + IT Education Conference. Informing Science Institute, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/2553.
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Automated marking of assignments consisting of written text would doubtless be of advantage to teachers and education administrators alike. When large numbers of assignments are submitted at once, teachers find themselves bogged down in their attempt to provide consistent evaluations and high quality feedback to students within as short a timeframe as is reasonable, usually a matter of days rather than weeks. Educational administrators are also concerned with quality and timely feedback, but in addition must manage the cost of doing this work. Clearly an automated system would be a highly desirable addition to the educational tool-kit, particularly if it can provide less costly and more effective outcome. In this paper we present a description and evaluation of four automated essay grading systems. We then report on our trial of one of these systems which was undertaken at Curtin University of Technology in the first half of 2001. The purpose of the trial was to assess whether automated essay grading was feasible, economically viable and as accurate as manually grading the essays. Within the Curtin Business School we have not previously used automated grading systems but the benefit could be enormous given the very large numbers of students in some first year subjects. As we evaluate the results of our trial, a research and development direction is indicated which we believe will result in improvement over existing systems.
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Williams, Christopher B., Janis P. Terpenny, and Richard M. Goff. "Designing a Service-Learning Design Project for a First-Year Engineering Course." In ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2009-87091.
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The creation of an appropriate, meaningful design experience for a first-year engineering design course is challenging as the instructor must balance resource constraints with broad learning objectives and a diverse, and often very large, enrollment. In this paper, the authors present the task of developing a design project for a first-year engineering course as a problem of design. Following a structured design process, the authors articulate the requirements for a successful first-year design project including: learning objectives that are appropriate for a multi-disciplinary group of first-year students and common budgetary and time constraints. Several project alternatives are generated and evaluated in a conceptual design phase. In their description of the embodiment and detail design phases, the authors present the implementation of the selected project concept: ROXIE (“Real Outreach eXperiences In Engineering”). The ROXIE project, a service-learning themed project, tasks first-year students with serving as design consultants to not-for-profit community partners. Through this partnership, students are able to practice principles and tools of design methodology and project management. Preliminary survey data and excerpts of student reflection essays are provided as a means of supporting the instructors’ project selection.
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Zsiray, Barbara, and Ildikó Koós. "HOW RORY’S STORY CUBES CAN IMPROVE THE ABILITY OF STORYTELLING IN WRITING AND SPEAKING." In International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2022v1end041.
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"Using board games in the classroom is an opportunity for experiential learning and teaching. The presentation is an example of how board games can be used in mother tongue teaching. Our previous questionnaire proves that 9–10-year-old children show a positive attitude towards board games, and its use in lessons helps to increase interactions between students. In addition, cooperation within the group was strengthened. We have reflected on this with a new project. Our goal is to examine how the popular board game, Rory's Story Cubes, can develop written and oral communication of 9–10-year-old students. In the first period, essays were written by the members of the experimental group and the control group, in which five previously specified words were used. The quantitative and qualitative indexes of the data were analysed by Mean Length Utterance (MLU) and the Hungarian adaptation of Developmental Sentence Scoring (KFM), and creativity was considered. In the second phase, the members of the experimental group took part in an activity process that lasted 15 weeks and was held twice a week. The games with the Story Cubes were carried out under the supervision of the methodical leader of the experiment and recorded with the video camera. The oral texts were analysed in the same way. In the last period of the process, the participants again wrote an essay. The results show that the consistent use of the given board game is beneficial for the semasiological and syntactic cohesion of the students' oral and written texts. The project's achievements may contribute to the widespread use of Rory's Story Cubes, thereby expanding the methodology of native language teaching."
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AK, TOHIRIN. "The Implementing Problem of Government Accrual Accounting in the First Year A case study of Indonesia s experience when preparing the first government accrual accounting in 2015." In Fifth International Conference On Advances In Economics, Social Science and Human Behaviour Study - ESSHBS 2016. Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.15224/978-1-63248-107-8-44.
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Holloway, Paul, Raymond O'Connor, Denis Linehan, and Therese Kenna. "Digital (Urban) Geography: Student-led research methodology training using smartphone apps." In Learning Connections 2019: Spaces, People, Practice. University College Cork||National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/lc2019.30.
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In the last decade, opportunities have emerged to deploy new digital technologies to research agendas and research-led teaching at third level. For instance, research methods such as surveys and questionnaires are shifting into the digital environment, while at the same time there is increasing evidence to support the view that people who have grown up with technology have acquired distinctive new ways of learning, and that traditional methodologies fail to maximise student engagement (Lafuente 2018). Thompson (2013) suggests that these ‘new learners’ are constantly using technology, multi-tasking in interactive environments, and collaborating online, yet research shows that many students are unaware of the potential of their smartphone to support learning (Woodcock et al, 2012). Despite a widespread interest in mobile devices facilitating teaching and learning in third-level education geography departments (Welsh et al. 2013), many research techniques are still taught using traditional ‘pen-and-paper’ methodologies. The ESRI Collector for ArcGIS is a mobile application (app) that can be used with iOS, Android, and Windows smartphones. Collector for ArcGIS is beginning to emerge as a technology to support spatial thinking in geography at second-level education and third-level education (Pánek and Glass 2018). Here we report on our strategy of integrating mobile technology in GG1015 Applied Geography, a large (250+) class introducing first year BA Arts Geography programme students to a number of techniques that we use in Geography. This module sits between GG1013 Environmental Geography and GG1014 Society and Space in the first-year programme. Both of these modules are a block of 24 1-hour lectures, with multiple choice quizzes (MCQs) and essay-based exams. Subsequently, GG1015 was developed to compliment these modules and introduce different teaching styles that facilitate learning across a range of diversities. Throughout this module, students engage directly in fieldwork, photographic activities, essay writing, presentations, and small group work. As such, this module offers an excellent case study to explore new techniques to engage students in learning, particularly in geographic research.
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Tiemeyer, Daniel. "Johann Nepomuk Hummels Sonate in fis-Moll Op. 81 – Studien zu Entstehungshintergrund, Rezeption und formaler Struktur." In Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung 2019. Paderborn und Detmold. Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar der Universität Paderborn und der Hochschule für Musik Detmold, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.25366/2020.74.
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The article examines the significance of one of Johann Nepomuk Hummel’s masterpieces. First, it highlights the circumstances of its production and the contemporary critical acclaim in the AmZ. In a second step, Robert Schumann’s involvement with this work is shown. In his journal, the sonata of Hummel is mentioned several times which indicates the engagement of the young piano discipline. In a short article, published in the NZfM in the year 1839, Schumann links this sonata with the compositional “way of Mozart” and thus gives an important hint to the formal design of the piece itself. Aspects of formal organization and structure of this sonata are analyzed and presented in the third part of the essay. In opposition to Beethoven’s motivic development, Hummel pursues another strategy of formal structure by stringing together each of the segments and themes. Thus, the focus shifts from a dynamic design of sonata-form to a more epic layout of the piece. Additionally, technical development and innovations concerning piano techniques and virtuosity are examined.
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Truc, Nguyen Thụy Ngọc. "A Study on the use of Technology in Translation by HUFI English-majored Students." In 4th Conference on Language Teaching and Learning. AIJR Publisher, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21467/proceedings.132.28.
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This study aims to investigate students’ use of technology for their translation needs and investigate which translation tools students use most often. The study is based on a survey of 50 students majoring in English Language in courses 09DHAV to courses 12DHAV of Ho Chi Minh City University of Food Industry (HUFI). They are representative of each school year, covering a variety of levels, genders helping to identify any trends or differences among student translators at different educational levels. This article analyses by quantitative method with the results of 20 questions including multiple-choice and essay written in English. The results show that students use a lot of technology and prefer to use their phones to translate Vietnamese-English. The tool using Google Translate was voted as the most used by students, followed is TFlat, SmartCat. The preference for using a phone over using a computer increased after the first and final years of school. Students in the early years also show a significant preference for Google Translate as their most used tool, but this preference is much lower for seniors.
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Sjölinder, Marie, and Jonas Söderberg. "Designing a Future City – Applying Design Fiction with High School Students." In 8th International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies. AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002723.
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This work was conducted in the framework of Viable Cites, which is a national strategic innovation program in Sweden with a focus on the change towards climate-neutral and sustainable cities. Viable Cities is catalyst for new ways of collaboration between cities, industry, academia, research institutes and the civil society. The overall goal is to provide support to the cities to convert to a way in line with national and international climate goals. The work described in this paper was one project within this framework. The project consisted of the City of Enköping, RISE Research Institute of Sweden and Europan with is an Pan-European architect organization witch organise a biennial competition for young architects. As a part of this project, a collaboration was conducted together with Westerlundska gymnasiet, a high school in Enköping. The overall goal was to engage young people, and to get their ideas about how to achieve a sustainable environment and to develop sustainable products and services. It is this group that both will be forced to handle the decisions that are made today, and they are also the generation that knows best how the want to live their lives in the future. The aim with this work was both to get ideas and suggestions from high school students about how they wanted their future city to be designed, and to explore how high school students could apply and use the method “Design Fiction” when conducting work with designing future cities.According to Bleeker (2009), Design Fiction is a mix of science fact, design and science fiction. It combines the traditions of writing and story telling with the material crafting of objects. It is a creative process that encourages human imagination and give support in telling stories that provoke and raise questions (Bleeker, 2009). Design Fiction is a method to explore future possible scenarios or contexts. A concept could be described in several ways by using narratives and prototypes. The story can be told and the concept can be visualized in many different ways (Wakkary et al, 2013).In the project there were about 20 students from the school’s technology program. They had all chosen architecture as their special focus during their last year. The students both participated in a Design Fiction workshop and organsied Design Fiction workshops themselves with first-year students as participants. Results from the workshops and insights related to the design process are presented in this paper.ReferencesBleecker, J. (2009). Design Fiction: A short essay on design, science fact and fiction. Near Future LaboratoryWakkary, R., Desjardins, A., Hauser, S., & Maestri, L. (2013). A Sustainable Design Fiction: Green Practices . ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 20, No. 4, Article 23, Publication date: September 2013.
Reports on the topic "First-year essays"
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Yablonskyy, Maxym. «NEW DAYS» WEEKLY AND PETRO VOLYNIAK, PUBLISHER AND AUTHOR. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.49.11058.
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In the article on the material of the Salzburg weekly «New Days» (1945–1947) various spheres of activity of Peter Volyniak are presented. It is noted that this edition was a business card of the publishing house of the same name and had a history of continuation: in Toronto Petro Volyniak restored the publishing house of the same name and continued the publication in the format of the universal monthly «New Days» (1950–1969). The article also presents periodicals («Latest News», «New Days», «Timpani», «Our Way») and literary, artistic and scientific collection «Steering Wheel», which were published in the Salzburg publishing house of Peter Volyniak «New Days». The purpose of the publication is to trace the path of Petro Volyniak from a writer to a literary critic, journalist and publisher. This trend is reproduced in chronological order. Peter Volyniak as a writer is informed in the article «Literary Evening of P. Volyniak» (author – M. Ch-ka). O. Satsyuk’s literary-critical article is devoted to the coverage of ideological and artistic aspects of Petro Volyniak’s collection «The Earth Calls» (Salzburg, 1947). Petro Volyniak as a literary critic is presented in an article devoted to a collection of literary tales by A. Kolomiyets (Salzburg, 1946), which was published by «New Days». Petro Volyniak as a journalist presents the essay «This is our song…». With the help of content analysis it was observed that the text is divided into two parts: the first contains the author’s reflections on the Ukrainian song, its role in the life of the Ukrainian people; in the second, main, Peter Okopny’s activity abroad is presented. The publisher Petro Volyniak in 1947 in a separate publication of the February issue of the weekly summarizes the third year of activity, providing statistics on the publication of periodicals, books, postcards, calendars, various small format materials. The analyzed material demonstrated the experience of combining creative work and commercial activity.