Elementary and high schools are not preparing their students well enough to understand the writing process, which mostly affect them during the transition from high school to college. It is clear that elementary and high school students don’t fully understand the five steps of writing the limitation of sentences per a paragraph and how to gather information from different sources and give credit to the source or cited. Everyone has their own way of writing. Writing can occur in a personal letter or a business letter, essays, stories, and music. Writing to connect with one or more people, like a group the process of writing is require. Collecting ideas and thinking deeper for a draft paper. This is a part of the process of writing. After a draft paper a person is require to revise the paper, to correct all the mistake that might have left in there and write a final paper, which is cleaner and clear to understand. Fallowing the process of wring leads the writer to a better connection with their readers; it helps a writer get better in wring about anything. For some students, it is litter hard to get use to this process but after writing a couple of papers using this process, it should get easier. It is not hard after couple times of using it. It might be a bit hard for kinds in the elementary, maybe just because they don’t take writing any serious. Or it’s just the fact that they don’t enjoy the topic of the writing that the teacher had assigned them to write about. Once a person gets in high school writing becomes one of their close friend. The writing process is always needed, in writing a college essay, class essay or even writing for something different. To start any writing for any paper, collecting ideas is always a g... ... middle of paper ... ...s hard for high school student to get around the college way of writing because in high school kids mostly read books and writes about, in other words high school essay writing is focused on illustrating that you’ve understood what you read. In college it is different from what elementary and high school teaches because what you used to earn “A” doing in college will lead a lower grade. College is more into standing on your ground, meaning arguments and showing evidence to support what you believe. Since these low lever educational courses doesn’t prepare their student well enough for college and also to be better writers. Elementary and high schools makes harder for kids who are going to college because instead of teaching them what is needed they teach them things that are not needed which cause them to restart the who process ones they get in college.
Students, who come from different cultures and backgrounds, are not prepared (especially on their own) to give up everything that they have spent the past eight-teen years believing in, in order to write the perfect college essay.
“Unteaching the Five Paragraph Essay” by Marie Foley demonstrates how a five paragraph essay formula disturbs the thought process of the students and limits what they can write. A five paragraph essay is an introduction with the main idea, with three supporting topics showing the relationship to the main idea, and a conclusion summarizing the entire essay. Foley argues that this formula forces students to fill in the blank and meet a certain a word limit. She noted that this formula was intended for teachers in the education system to teach an overcrowded class how to write. While it is beneficial for the first-time students learning how to write. In the long run, this standard destroys any free style writing, new connections between a topic,
In Downs and Wardle’s article, they argue and identify the flaws in teaching writing in college. Demonstrating the misconceptions that academic writing is universal, but rather specialized in each case. Citing studies and opinions from esteemed professionals, Downs & Wardle state their points and illuminate the problem in today’s many colleges.
Academic writing is a very discouraging topic that most young writers do not even want to begin to think about or imagine doing. Throughout college everyone will be asked to write multiple academic essays regardless of their major. We have read two sources in class that have helped clear up some common myths and also helped make academic writing not seem so foreign. The two sources we read were “What is Academic Writing?” and the first chapter of the book “From Inquiry to Academic Writing”. Many young students seeking a college degree are fearful about the amount of work needed to be done in order to survive their college courses. Academic writing is a challenging topic that many young people struggle to get a grasp on. Once the skill of
I had always been a strong writer in high school; I know how to form an argument and support it fully, but this did not prepare me for the writing at a college level. I expected to be reading long and boring books about topics that did not pertain to my life; as it turns out, this assumption was completely false. All of the three essays that we were required to read in class were fairly difficult to understand, but after a second reading, the essay's meaning became clearer. I also feel as though their messages and key ideas are captivating. I definitely thought they would be extremely dry and difficult to understand.
Many times, high school students are assigned to write essays based on inspirational figures or literature read in class, often requiring the same rhetoric following fastidious rules of English and sprinkling decorative wording across pages. Obeying the formats demanded by teachers is easy enough, but it is not creatively challenging. Author of "What Should Colleges Teach?", Stanley Fish, claims it is to learn the proper ways of composition alone that allows students to flourish; however, I question if it is possible to follow these principles too closely. Can it be so that the curriculum being taught in high schools fail to allow students to realize the potential creativity that can be involved when writing? Instead students are possibly turned
Transitioning from high school to college can be overwhelming. Before English 1301, I thought that I did not have to worry about being prepared for college. I quickly realized that my little background in writing essays was not going to be enough for college. Writing is not just something that I will use in English classes. In college, I will have to use effective writing skills in all my classes to complete research papers, essay tests and communicate to professors. Throughout my education, writing strategies persisted to be something that did not come easy to me. I dreaded writing because I could never find ways to get my thoughts down on paper. Ironically, a class that petrified me due to the amount of writing that was required ended up helping me in so many ways. English 1301 and my professor prepared me so much for college and real life.
I agree with Holland’s claim because it affects me and all the other college students and job seekers. I believe that more should be done in school so that I am prepared when I start looking for a job. I believe that schools should offer more creative writing classes. In the article “A Passionate Unapologetic Plea for Creative Writing in Schools” written by Rebecca Wallace-Seagall, she states “If young people are not learning to write while exploring personal narratives and short fiction, it is because we as educators need more training- or the specifics of the curriculum need development”. I think that if I had more writing classes I would be more prepared and do better in higher level English classes. In my own experiences I found that reading
According to data from the National Center for Educational Statistics and the National Center for Educational Progress, four out of five college students are not proficient writers. This has been a reoccurring problems since 1998. Many factors contribute to this data, but it is evident that students
For me, being a college writer means writing well-organized essays that readers enjoy reading. Being a well rounded writer was also important. Each unit in this class challenged me to write in a well-organized, concise way. During each unit, we conducted some sort of revision activity where I was exposed to other students’ writing. As I read their work, I picked up on their use of transition words and separation of paragraphs to make the essay flow. Naturally, I began implementing more transition words in my own work and learned the appropriate ways to split paragraphs. The structure of the class was key to the organization of my ideas which was crucial to the development of my essay. During the third unit of this class, we were asked to identify an issue on campus, conduct research on the issue, and finally propose a solution to correct the issue. At first, it was difficult to get my ideas down and figure out what it was I would research. What I learned in class allowed me to first identify the issue I would research, write a rough draft, and hear what others had written before the final paper was due. This helped me to identify the main points, brainstorm and figure out what additional research I would need to find to support my argument. Being able to organize my thoughts from the beginning made writing the paper a much easier process. This course has helped me to grow as a writer and make
the writing process has five stage. first stage prewriting. In this stage children should pick a top that he or she understand, consider the fact of writing and she or he are capable to identify the genre of the writing. Second stage is drafting, the purpose of drafting is to make sure that the idea of the works are emphasize. third stage revising, receiving works by sharing with group or classmate and also get a comment from a teacher or classmate. four stage editing, it is good idea of editing any work before submits it, editing is identify and correct your mistake like capitalization, punctuation and also grammar spelling. fifth stage is publishing, it is final copy of writing and sharing your work with other
Writing process like process practicing tennis. For me, when I began to study English, Writing is too difficult, and I don 't know how to write the essay on strong ideas, and well organization. It looks like I play tennis. When I wrote the essays or played tennis, I usually did what I think that I didn 't think about how to write a good essay or do to become a better good player. To be a good writer, I have to practice, learn others, and research important information to support writing. A good essay must have better organize, strong ideas, and the ideas have to support the main ideas. Playing tennis too, good players need to go through practicing process, it has basic techniques that every player has to complete to become a good player. Writing process has been as similar as the process of practicing
It was a dark, cold, cloudy day. The clouds covered the sky like a big black sheet, nothing to be seen except darkness that seemed to go on forever. This was the third day in a row that there had been complete darkness, there was no getting rid of it. This was because of ‘the meteorite.’
middle of paper ... ... In addition, adhering to writing mechanics will ensure that the paper is in the correct format, error free, and includes properly cited sources. Finally, using all available online resources provides the college-level writer the ability to investigate their subject and fine-tune their essay. Overall, outstanding writing skills are an invaluable tool for the college student.
The purpose of writing goes hand in hand with the development of the writing. A student must understand about what he is being asked to write. He must be able to ...