First Year Composition Colloquium

The First-Year Composition Colloquium is the culminating event for A-State’s Freshman Composition experience. Students engage in research methods and present their work at a mock-conference.

These projects represent the top ten percent of all the digitally compatible work submitted for consideration across the English Composition II classes each semester.

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The Need for Universal Healthcare

Gunner Carter

Gunner, a Computer Science major, coded a website in HTLM and CSS to make his argument for The Need for Universal Healthcare.
Our Lives Aren't for Sale: Say No to Selling Personal Data

Miranda Burgett

Imagine sharing your private thoughts, health concerns, and life moments online, only to have them sold without your consent. Every day, companies collect and sell our personal data—our locations, health details, and online activities—posing risks to our safety, civil rights, and national security. The current state-specific laws are extremely inconsistent, making it difficult for data protection. The United States urgently needs a federal law to create uniform, stronger privacy protections nationwide.
Free from Captivity

Ella Cartwright

Ella created her video aquariums and animal abuse. She used CapCut to put the public domain videos together and overlaid parts of her argument.
The Importance of Mental Health of Collegiate Athletes

Abbey Cobberly

Collegiate athletes aren’t offered enough help when they are faced with the mental health challenges that come from high expectations, performance pressure, injuries, time management issues, coaching styles, and the stigma around asking for help.
How to Improve the Lack of Public Transportation in Jonesboro

Mone Fukushima

Most people in Jonesboro use cars to go around, but the lack of public transportation systems and heavily relying on vehicles can cause some problems to people and impact many aspects in society.
Women in STEM

Anahi Garcia Valdez

STEM is an acronym that stands for science,technology, engineering, and mathematics.STEM is one of the most important careers in theworld today, but one of the main problems inSTEM is the treatment that women get in STEM;in my project we cover some of those problemsand we will find effective solutions to be able tomake a change in this problem and why genderdiversity is important in STEM.
Examining Artificial Intelligence

Daniel Guerrero

A brief look into AI, its problems, and ways we might use it for good.

This video is 3 minutes 40 seconds long. It was written, recorded, edited, and produced by Daniel Guerrero.
Broken Bottles, Broken Futures

Ensley Heringer

Ensley created a mosaic on a canvas using smashed beer bottles and a mirror to showcase her argument about keeping the legal drinking age the same versus lowering it to 18, like in some European countries.

Art measures 12 inches x 8 inches - glass on canvas
Nursing Shortage in the US

Grace Koch

The Shortage of nurses in the United States has become a critical issue, affecting patient outcomes/satisfaction and nurses’ mental health. Through this project, I have researched the causes, current impacts, and realistic solutions to this problem. If this issue is not solved, we risk the well-being of nurses and patients all across the United State.
English Literature and Its Decline In Society

Zaireth Rodriguez

English literature has been around for centuries and its great impact has carried throughout generations. Society continues to advance through this subject in order to retain knowledge of different ideas, cultures, and morals around the world. With the great impact from literature pieces, the world continues to acknowledge different perspectives that provide great support throughout our lives.
Greek Life: Choose Your Own Adventure

Layne Summitt

Layne created this project to argue that Greek life can be harmful to college campuses.
Brain Drain in Nepal: Causes and Effects

Smriti Thapa, Aayushi Kafle, Prasant Khatri, and Nishan Gurung

Brain Drain In Nepal refers to the emigration of highly educated and skilled professionals to other countries for better job opportunities and living conditions. This migration often results in a shortage of talented individuals in Nepal, affecting the country's development and growth.
Breaking the Silence: Mental Health Challenges in Collegiate Athletes

Nyla Wilson

Holding the tittle "Student Athlete" is not always easy. Many deal with anxiety, sleep deprivation, eating disorders, academic strain and many other things. Those things can cause athletes to underperform and fall behind in the classoom, leaving the athlete, coach, and athletic administrators unhappy.
Museums Matter

Miya Wolverton

Through this research, I wanted to focus on ways museums can change or reevaluate their current practices to align better with the ideals presented. It is clear there is a myriad of ways, both simple and complicated, museums can and should change. It is crucial for museums to be ethical and equitable and each of this research showcases this. With these practices implemented, museums can become better facilitators of learning, creativity, and awareness.
Do you agree with giving your animal vaccinations"

Miya Wolverton and Samuel Hoskins

Vaccines for animals are dire. Every animal needs their vaccines for their safety and your safety. Diseases spread easily from one animal to another and can even spread to humans in some cases. It is very important to research your animals health and how you can help improve it.
Homelessness: A Problem in Your Backyard

Travia Alcorn

Homelessness is a major problem that affects thousands of people every day. As the current generation, we are finally understanding different ways to help this population. More plans are starting to work and we are able to help people who suffer from this terrible problem.
A-State Athletic Funding

Jourdan Badley, Mario Fatina, and Grace Barnett

Arkansas State University implies that every wolf is a part of the pack until its not. Funding between men and women's sports are unequal. There are multiple ways to improve the funding here at A-state for athletics. And there are so many benefits of having it equal.
Stopping Climate Change in Cost Effective Ways

McKenna Beaver

Whether you realize it or not, our temperatures are getting warmer and warmer. This is called climate change, which has been causing more natural disasters than ever. This is happening because the hotter the temperature is, the more water that is evaporated. This excess amount of water is leading to flooding and all kinds of other bad storms. So, clearly, we need to do something about this to protect the only Earth we have. There is no reason to break the bank and waste money on solutions that do not work. At the end of the day, natural disasters happen everywhere, even Jonesboro. Thus, why we need to realize the dangers we are facing and do something about it in the most cost-effective ways.
Sex Education: More Needed Than It Seems

Claudia Blackman

The South is notorious for sweetening its words in order to avoid the more sensitive subjects but sex education might just be one area where we can’t allow this to fly. Our students are being done a true disservice by being kept from helpful information that could protect them from disease, unwanted pregnancy, abuse and more.
Finding Classes on Campus

Brooke Boone

Have you ever been nervous about finding your classes in the new upcoming semester? This is a great way to find a path and prepare for your class.
Learning Loss Due to COVID-19

Jocelynn Bowen

At its peak, UNESCO (2020) reported that nearly 1.6 billion learners in more than 190 countries, or 94% of the world’s student population, were impacted by educational institution closures.
Opioid Epidemic in Jonesboro, AR

Michelle Brock and Peyton Dugger

Jonesboro Arkansas has had nearly half of the 444 reported drug overdose deaths involved opioids which does not count the number of deaths caused by overdose.
How Does Health and Fitness Affect Our Lives?

John David Carter

A majority of adults in the world have an "overwhelming" majority obesity rate. This is happening because of lack of exercise and not great nutrition. Another possible reason for this happening is that in some countries there is high marketing for junk foods.
Driving Safety in Jonesboro

Kamden Duty, Kory McIntosh, and Van Tran

Why should we be concerned with driving safety in Jonesboro? Reports show that the number of fatal car accidents in Arkansas have increased 25% from 2020 to 2022.
Importance of Walking to Class

Faith Hammontree

Any physical activity, like walking to class, has important health and well-being impacts. Walking to and from class can constitute up to 2/3 of a person's recommended daily activity.