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Why Do I Have to Be Here? The Advanced Placement Student in First-Year Composition: Problems and Issues in Cognitive Development.

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Henderson, Sarah – Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 1995

This article discusses the resistance of many students who have taken Advanced Placement English in high school to college freshman-year English composition requirements. Concepts of adherence and opposition to authority are applied to help understand these students. Recommendations for helping these students develop their thinking and writing are…

Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Placement, Advanced Students, Cognitive Development