Many students have chosen for their FYE paper topics issues such as eating disorders, alcohol and drug abuse, and sexual assault.
Most teachers have a passion for teaching.
For some people, that passion may include a desire to share with students a philosophy, political standpoint, or other personal experience that inspired them to become a teacher. Composition is particularly open to such manipulation because, while students need something to write about, that subject matter is not necessarily intrinsic to the course as, for example, binary numbers are to a course in computer science. Title owned by McIntyre Library A place for literature in freshman composition. Despite our discomfort with authority, most of us are in fact aware that, for better or worse, we do have power as teachers and, in the end, can only choose whether or not to use it effectively. For many of us, that choice entails forthright advocacy.