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High school VS College writing

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Oct 13, 2009
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My experience in highschool with my writing was moderate. I learn the basics your introduction, body, and conclusion. We did not wroik much on enhancing our paper. It was more of write the paper that was assigned to you, stay on the topic, check if you have any mispelling. With the punctuation it was the basics comma and period. We did a lot of narrative stories in highschool. Thats what we basically focused on because of the taks test, they said that was going to be asked on the test. With the writing in highschool I did good i was'nt bad with my writing. The expectations placed for me were to stay on topic and be very clear with my words.

My experince in writing in college has been very differnet than in high school. Of course its something compare like in high school, but not the same. In college what i can describe as would be that we do a lot of revising. Which I think that its perfect. We write our paper and then with the revising we see errors that we did not see before. It helps us improve our essay not just based on our view, but on suggestions from other people. We do different topics for our essays we dont just stick to one. The expectations are high they expect punctuation and everything to be correct.

I would say that high school did prepare me in a way for college. I knew how to write and set up my essay. My biggest struggle that I've had here in college has been the punctuation. I did not realize before that we can use a lot of pinctuation with our essays. I still have struggle fitting it in with my essay.  

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aw ha It was kind of that

Submitted by pinob-sacollege on Tue, 2009-10-13 09:58.

aw ha

It was kind of that same at my school at about the tenth grade they really started to focus on the student getting ready for the taks test. she is also right about how much we have to revise our papers at a college level. which can get a little frustating at times