In high school, there was always a clear-cut outline of what the teacher wanted. But now in this class, it seems like the assignments are going to be a lot more “free form” in terms of how we are are allowed to write. Also, it seems like we will go over more abstract topics like ones we have not talked about before, so we will probably have to do more studying than ever before in high school. Because my previous school was so strict on the use of “I”‘s, it made the writing very boring for me, with academic writing however, it looks like there is some ease on the use of “I” so that might be interesting for me.
Its very hard to find instances where two different essay assignments were done in a different way, as they were all done in almost the same fashion; one introduction paragraph, three body paragraphs, and finally a conclusion. It wasn’t always the same amount of body paragraphs however, sometimes we would do five instead of just three. There was one teacher however that taught writing in a different way. I remember that she would have us write our rough drafts over and over every week, revising and critiquing our work as well as others’. It was a tedious process, but it made our essays turn out great in the end.
An assignment that were going to be doing later this semester is an assignment on “Rhetorical and Argumentative Analysis”. Our audience will most likely be the professor and the other students, and the occasion is probably the professor trying to teach us about this specific topic. I do not know if we are going to have personal opinions towards this subject, but if we do, I’m guessing it has something to relate towards how we write our papers.
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