Pellissippi State Community College Freshman Composition Class: Social Novels and Short Stories to Improve Social Science Knowledge, Behavior, and Theoretical Registration Rate
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2023-09-12
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Southern New Hampshire University
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Pellissippi State Community College has a problem with the completion rate of its program and the mental health of its students due to various reasons. This content analysis paper’s purpose is to explore and discover whether the modified freshman composition class can prepare Pellissippi State Community College students for improving social science subject knowledge, college class and program completion rates, and Facebook knowledge. It is also to explore and discover whether community college composition, literature, or historical fiction class instructor used Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, and Clarice Lispector’s literary works in combination. Finally, it is worth investigating whether classroom management experts acknowledge the direct correlation between academic motivation and students’ ability to resolve conflicts. After analyzing the class syllabi, it will introduce a sample social science unit plan to the reader. There is a research gap regarding the connection between community college completion rates and reading fiction. In addition, a researcher who wants to use literary works from Atwood, Butler and Lispector in the same classroom to create a positive impact will also find a research gap. No classroom management scholar finds a direct correlation between any community college freshman class student’s academic motivation and one’s conflict resolving ability. This paper will be the continuation of the conversation carried out by the researchers in the following dissertations. In Berkley’s dissertation, she examined the impacts of an activity of reading about psychotherapy literature on students’ attitudes toward mental health services. Then, in Gaito’s dissertation, she examined the possibility of designing the developmental reading or writing class for students (Gaito-Lagnese). Then, in 2019, Noel-Elkins, et al.’s article shows that certain attributes of college or university campus affect students’ senses of satisfaction. This paper is related to writing theories, Erikson’s Psychosocial Development Model, and Steinmayr, et al.’s Achievement Motivation Model. The usage of the content analysis method is related to being able to challenge the assumptions and traditional norms for freshman English composition class research conduct, document availability, and avoiding data encoding problem.
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