Does the Research PaperKill Curiosity?Collaborating with Faculty to SupportLearning andExploration

Anne-Marie DeiteringOregon State University Libraries & PressLILAC 2016

First Year Seminars

Understand the evidence, methods & processes different communities use to

address a compelling problem or issue.

Demonstrate your own strategies to explore

compelling problems & issues.

Apply these insights to the interests you have & challenges you face as a first-year student.

First Year Composition

Required for all students(40% take it elsewhere)

1 term, 10 weeksAlmost entirely taught by

Graduate Teaching Assistants

Traditional “academic argument” paper with 8 required source types.

Researched rhetorical analysis paper

completed in 3 stages. No source type requirements.

Supplemented by a required annotated

bibliography.

2013

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/22

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motivation

curiosity self assessment

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