Hey team, I hope that break is going well for all of you! But looking back on the quarter and all of the writing that I have done I think that hardest thing for me has been the change in writing style from high school to college. In high school you need to have good facts and main points, but the way that it is presented is very different. There is a lot of extra stuff that college professors don’t want to read. In college everything has to be pretty straightforward. One example of this is signposting. I think that I learned to signpost when I was really young, and then after that it was almost frowned upon. If I turned a paper in in high school that was signposted, I would probably not receive the best grade in the world, and now to have it as a requirement is weird. The whole atmosphere of college writing is different as well. I felt like in high school if I needed to, I could go and talk to my professors about my paper and what ideas I had going through my head, and which ones were better than others. But now, I could probably shoot my professors an email but it just wouldn’t be the same. Also I love having the conferences for the essays because it helps a lot to get feedback from others before I turn in a final product, but we don’t have that opportunity in the political theory class, which kind of sucks. One thing that has been nice is that I tend to be pretty blunt in a lot of my writing so college writing hasn’t been too hard to get used to. Well thanks for reading! Have a marvelous Thanksgiving break!
Pingback: sportsoser
Pingback: Mitchell