The value of research in a first-year writing class

By: Kaitlyn W The value for of research in a first-year writing course is important. All through the college years, all college students will have to do some type of research project. I think it helps people learn about how to research and how to cite all the information that we have to find in order to write a research paper. I think that having a research paper first year in college is important because in high school, I hardly did research projects. The only research paper I did in high school was in my Intro to the Majors class. Where I had to write a twelve page paper about what major I wanted to do. There was so much work to do plus we also had to do a presentation with it. I think I did pretty well on that project, but it was the only research project I did in high school. Now that I am in college I know I will have many research projects to do in many of my classes. Having a research project to do in my English class makes me think. The project is a ton of work but it is not hard work. So far I have found my sources that I wanted to use in my paper. I liked reading the sources I found. Like I said before having to do a research project is important because it teaches people a lot about how to source and many other things along with learning to write about the topic that I chose. A research project has many things that you have to do and it’s a lot of work. I like having to do a research project because I only did one during high school. I know many people think that a research project is not necessary in your first year but I think it will help you in the long run.