[Front Matter] Royal Road: A Journal of Undergraduate Research
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2017
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Department of English and Writing, The University of Tampa
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Editor's Introduction
Not unlike a fine research project, the idea for Royal Road began with a serendipitous conversation. In early fall of 2014, I stopped by Daniel Dooghan’s office to ask how his classes were going, and more particularly, how he felt about the recent curricular change that moved FYW 102 from a first-year to a second-year course (AWR 201). Dan was excited about it, and hopeful that by moving the course into the second year students would benefit from greater intellectual maturity and more ambitious research. For me, such enthusiasm is always contagious, and by the end of that brief meeting we had convinced each other that we needed a way to showcase the great research projects that would be coming out of the new 201 classes. By the next spring we had enlisted the help of our colleague David Reamer and put together a proposal for a UT Learning Enrichment Grant. We got that grant, and have been working steadily on the project ever since. Thus, from a brief, wholly unpremeditated conversation—a wayside stop in the middle of a busy day—this journal has emerged.
Not unlike a fine research project, the idea for Royal Road began with a serendipitous conversation. In early fall of 2014, I stopped by Daniel Dooghan’s office to ask how his classes were going, and more particularly, how he felt about the recent curricular change that moved FYW 102 from a first-year to a second-year course (AWR 201). Dan was excited about it, and hopeful that by moving the course into the second year students would benefit from greater intellectual maturity and more ambitious research. For me, such enthusiasm is always contagious, and by the end of that brief meeting we had convinced each other that we needed a way to showcase the great research projects that would be coming out of the new 201 classes. By the next spring we had enlisted the help of our colleague David Reamer and put together a proposal for a UT Learning Enrichment Grant. We got that grant, and have been working steadily on the project ever since. Thus, from a brief, wholly unpremeditated conversation—a wayside stop in the middle of a busy day—this journal has emerged.
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Recommended Citation: Letter, Joseph. “[Front Matter & Editor's Introduction] Royal Road: A Journal of Undergraduate Research.” Royal Road, 2017. https://doi.org/10.48497/KM2P-8M30.
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Letter, Joseph. “[Front Matter & Editor's Introduction] Royal Road: A Journal of Undergraduate Research.” Royal Road, 2017. https://doi.org/10.48497/KM2P-8M30.