Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Budny P.E., University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Topics

Council of Sections

gratitude for the opportunity theywere provided to participate in such a formal and professional activity.We also got feedback from the faculty teaching the second year courses in the variousdepartments. As one faculty member stated, he was "blown away by the quality of thewriting of his students compared to previous years". We discovered that one of the mainreasons the writing of our undergraduates had been so poor was because they didn’t knowhow to utilize library resources to write a research paper. An understanding of the intricaciesof the literature research process is an integral component of any academic pursuit. Theresults we are getting continue to support the concept that if you teach them how to do it, theywill improve their research and