The Research Prospectus in First-Year Writing (and Beyond)

This paper discusses a first-year writing research prospectus prompt designed to support first-year undergraduate students transitioning from high school writing—which often focuses on summary and synthesis—to college-level writing. In college, “research papers” often require knowledge production: developing research questions that address gaps in existing scholarship. My prospectus prompt offers a scaffolded structure for writers embarking on such college-level projects, and it also offers a tool to facilitate writing transfer, with the goal of enabling students to develop major research projects independently in other classes. It does so in two ways. First, it labels the components of major research projects (e.g. objects of study, research questions about those objects of study, and the theoretical frameworks used to analyze objects of study). Second, it provides a process for approaching research projects, including showing students how to develop research questions and how to move beyond summarizing and synthesizing other scholars.

Learning to Write Poetry Based on Social Environment for High School Students

Writing Poetry is one of the basic competencies that must be mastered by students in high school. Writing poetry is also an effort to encourage literacy movements, especially literacy program in schools. To increase students’ interest in writing poetry, innovation is needed in the learning process. One of them is by using an interesting learning method by utilizing the social environment. This writing is an idea that discusses the learning method of case study based on the social environment as an alternative for students in writing poetry. The discussion in this paper includes (1) steps to implement a case study method based on social environment in learning to write poetry and (2) steps to write poetry based on the social environment by applying case study method. Keywords: Learning to Write Poetry, Case Study, Social Environment

Penerapan Pembelajaran Melalui Model POE2WE Sebagai Upaya Melatih Literasi Saintifik Dalam Domain Kompetensi Pada Pembelajaran Fisika di SMA

The purpose of this paper is to describe the application of the POE2WE model as an effort to practice scientific literacy in the domain of competence in physics learning in high school. Writing this in the background by the lack of ability to apply mastery of science to be able to solve the problem at hand. For this reason, it is necessary to have a relevant learning model in order to prepare the current generation to be ready to face it later, namely by applying the POE2WE model as a learning process that emphasizes the activeness of students in conducting learning activities. The method used in this paper is the study of literature by studying some literature to be analyzed and made conclusions. The results of this paper indicate that the application of learning through the POE2WE model can practice scientific literacy. This is because the POE2WE model is student-centered learning so that students are not only given information but are lured to participate in finding information with the knowledge they have. The syntax of this learning model is also compatible with learning physics in high school. In addition, with the POE2WE model, all competencies in scientific literacy can be achieved.Abstrak: Tujuan penulisan ini untuk mendeskripsikan penerapan model POE2WE sebagai upaya melatih literasi saintifik dalam domain kompetensi pada pembelajaran fisika di SMA. Penulisan ini di latar belakang oleh masih kurangnya kemampuan menerapkan penguasaan sains untuk dapat menyelesaikan masalah yang dihadapi. Untuk itu perlu adanya model pembelajaran yang relevan agar dapat mempersiapkan generasi saat ini untuk siap menghadapi saat nanti, yaitu dengan menerapkan model POE2WE sebagai proses pembelajaran yang menekankan pada keaktifan dari peserta didik dalam melakukan kegiatan pembelajaran. Metode yang digunakan dalam penulisan ini yaitu dengan studi kepustakaan dengan mengkaji beberapa literatur untuk dianalisis dan dibuat kesimpulan. Hasil penulisan ini menunjukkan bahwa penerapan pembelajaran melalui model POE2WE dapat melatih literasi saintifik. Hal ini dikarenakan model POE2WE merupakan pembelajaran yang berpusat pada siswa sehingga siswa tidak hanya diberi informasi melainkan dipancing agar ikut serta mencari informasi dengan bekal pengetahuan yang telah dimiliki. Sintaks model pembelajaran ini juga cocok dengan pembelajaran fisika di SMA. Selain itu dengan model POE2WE, semua kompetensi pada literasi saintifik dapat dicapai.

Learning styles, study habits and academic performance of Filipino University students in applied science courses: Implications for instruction

In order to better prepare university students as proficient, versatile and productive information and industrial technologists in the 21st century, the need to implement instructional strategies and activities naturally align with their predispositions will make them better learners. This study examined the learning style preferences, study habits and level of academic achievement of students enrolled in applied science courses of Cagayan State University at Lasam, Philippines. The study employed descriptive correlational research design to a total of seventy-five respondents who were purposively sampled. Two sets of standardized instruments were utilized by the researcher. Results of the study revealed that the students of applied sciences courses preferred visual, group and kinesthetic as major learning styles while they manifest a moderate level of study habits. They also have a good level of academic achievement. Test of difference revealed that academic performance, father's occupation and type of high school graduated from spelled significant differences in their perceptual learning styles. They also spelled differences in their study habits when grouped according to academic standing in high school, writing skills, mothers’ education, and test anxiety. Finally, there were significant relationships between learning styles, study habits and academic performance of students in applied science courses. The implications of the study can guide instructors plan and deliver suitable instructional interventions.

Imagining Insurance in Japanese High Schools during the Era of Rapid Modernisation: From ‘Distrust’ to the Japanese ‘Spirit’

Individual private insurance is a risk-management practice that plays an important role in many people’s lives. Despite its prominence in industrialised countries, it remains an understudied area in Japan studies, where most work has focused on social insurance. Using insights from the governmentality literature, and in particular François Ewald’s concept of an ‘insurantial imaginary’, we examine the changing perceptions towards private non-life insurance during Japan’s period of high growth and rapid modernisation (1964–1992). While individual private insurance developed in Western Europe and the US over hundreds of years, it did not take off in Japan until the early postwar era. We argue that, like in Western Europe and the US, individual private insurance in Japan had to overcome normative resistance. The norms in Japan, however, were different. To illustrate this, we look at winning essays from an annual high school writing competition run by the Japanese insurance industry as part of a wide-ranging publicity campaign. We conclude that private insurance in Japan passed through four stages of moral understanding to successfully incorporate existing counter norms centred on ‘sincerity’ and ‘mutual aid’. What was initially viewed with ‘distrust’ ended up as a supposed manifestation of the Japanese ‘spirit’.