Transcript Episode 5

Gaining insight from Sebastian Garcia, a senior undergraduate at UCF completing a double major in History and Biomedical Sciences, we explore what it takes to tackle research in ENC 1102. It can be difficult to find a way to transfer high school writing skills to the new challenges placed by college classes, but we cover everything you may need to know beginning with the very first step of finding passion and inspiration. Sebastian was selected as a panelist for UCF’s Knights Write Showcase in Spring of 2021 with his article “Is the Advanced Placement (AP) Program Really ‘Advanced”? A Critical Textual Analysis of an AP United States History Textbook” and was also published in the Spring 2022 issue of Stylus: A Journal of First-Year Writing.

To learn more about crafting a college-level research paper, join us in this exploration of one student’s journey.

Time Stamps:

• Introduction – 00:00:07
• Meeting our Guest – 00:00:45
• Research Inspiration and Motivation – 00:01:40
• Methodology and Analysis – 00:09:15
• Passion is Paramount! – 00:17:27
• Finding and Reading Literature – 00:20:30
• Presenting Research – 00:22:55
• The Post-Graduation Future – 00:28:11
• Finding Topics and Questioning Everything – 00:31:10
• Transitioning from High School to College Writing – 00:36:44
• Finding Gaps in the Research – 00:42:58
  • Letting Context Inform Research – 00:46:53
• Looking Forward and Looking Back – 00:50:47
• Stylus Publication – 00:53:08