The Importance Of Writing In Writing

In New York State, the finals are called Regents. For many Regents exams, students are required to write an essay. Most teachers teach the “five paragraph essay” method: an introduction paragraph, with last sentence in tbeing the thesis statement with three reasons, then three body paragraphs that discuss each of the reasons, and a conclusion paragraph which students will reiterate the thesis statement one last time. Teachers work hard with students so they can receive full credit on these essays. There is never enough time in the class to begin with and having to teach how not to write a five paragraph essay with creative ideas, is a new

I see that writing an essay is like telling your audience a story that you have created yourself. The story could either be about me struggling in being accepted in Valdosta State University, or how Immokalee High school, which is the high school I had attended, began as an educational institution. The paper I typed up in high school were mostly looking up information about a historical event. For example, how Christopher Columbus had discovered America and how he was a terrible person in general. Outside the textbook and writing class, I had written multiple stories about my life and my feelings towards people. These types of stories I had written were very personal. When creating them, I started pouring my emotions into an electronic device.

While attending public schools english teachers did not begin teaching students the proper method to create a essay until the sixth grade. I never understood writing, because the stress of the state test, the teachers only taught what will earn students a successful score. In lectures, we learned to create and revise an essay. The teacher trusted student to be accurate in their corrections. By analyzing Richard Straub’s document, I have gained knowledge on where to put place my comments, how to criticize an essay and goals a responder should encounter.

In high school, students were required to write based off of prompts and answer the question with evidence given by teachers. The essay prompts were clearly written and the papers were usually no more than three pages with only two exceptions in my high school career. Essays and papers were given to let students involve themselves with a certain topic, mostly by means of books read. Only once in high school was I given the opportunity to write an argumentative essay on a topic of my choice. Papers that I turned in followed the standard paper writing procedure with the thesis and introduction in the first paragraph, then followed by body paragraphs, and then ending with a concluding paragraph stating my side or my view on the topic at hand.

Ever since Junior year of High School when my English teacher announced,“We will be writing an extensive amount of essays in this class to prepare you for the AP Test.” After my teacher explained how the class will be for the next year, I knew that I would not be fond of writing essays. I did not love to write essays because I knew I could be utilizing my time in doing something that I would appreciate. Also, while writing essays I found it stressful to write a certain amount of pages regarding to a certain topic and being formatted in a certain way. In addition, I always have trouble either putting clear ideas on paper or supporting my ideas with evidence that are clear as well. However, now that I know I will be writing a bulk of essays this

A vast majority of the students hates writing essays, but teachers are always insisting on making them write boring essays. Rebecca Schuman discusses the same issue in her article, The End of the College Essay. This article provides useful information about the useless practice of writing essays. Rebecca Schuman supports her ideas through logical reasoning, which makes her article look convincing. Essay writing has been a part of college education traditionally, and that is the only reason (apparently) that colleges insist on forcing students to write essays. Therefore, students should not be obliged to write essays.

From time to time we all hear that dreadful five letter word; “essay”. Even though I am sure that we would all like to delete the word from existence, unfortunately, it will go on being an annoying part of high school. Many students hear this word and immediately begin to worry about whether or not they have a sufficient amount of time to write it, or if they can even write an essay good enough to get an acceptable grade on it. They struggle with not knowing how to write an effective essay. Most students really struggle getting across the idea that they want to tell their readers. "When I came to write my first assignment, I cried," says Daphne Elliston (from essay writing trips you up). "I just didn't know what I was doing." The writing in

Writing has been the normal way of communicating for hundreds of centuries. Ever since the early Hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt in 3000 B.C.E. to the well recognized Greek scripts, writing has been one of the best forms of communicating. With any type of writing there are specific types of guidelines and rules that a writer must follow to sound intelligent to make the reader understand him/her clearly. In the English language, there are different types of formats to write and hundreds of ways to write in that format. For example, a simple poem can be wrote so many ways, and the poem can either rhyme with a A-B-A-B format, A-A-B-B- format, or not even rhyme at all. When it comes to essays, they need to be very precise and structured.

In classes like English, you are to study things like Hamlet and why the style should be referenced and viewed by all authors. This forces students to think less outside of the box and practice less individuality. Telling a student how he should write and then asking him to write something original creates a muddled mess of ideas. Our school systems should focus more on teaching students how to write and give them more freedom on what to write. It’s important to learn how to construct a proper essay, but when you limit a student on using facts and evidence from others, the essay is no longer

As they were in the elementary the teachers let the students turn in anything for an essay, because they did not know how to write an essay and summary. The young mind needs to understand how to write a proper essay and summary. For example, there is the five-paragraph essay that shows the user how to create an essay in the proper format. The student also needs to understand that they are forbidden from just jotting down ideas and throwing them in the paragraphs any type of way. The student has to explain what they are talking about so that the reader also understands.

In high school I got the opportunity to be involved in honors and AP English classes. Throughout those classes I was able to learn how to annotate, format (is key to writing a good essay), proper citations, personal words should not be added such as “I”, “we”, “us” “our”. To annotate was to skim over and just write what you understand about the text in the margin. If you could have the format of the “beginning, middle, and end” then writing a two page/1,000 word minimum did not apply to grading. In writing a good essay, proper citations were a big chunk of writing an essay. Though, I never learned how to properly cite in the time given to learn it because I was not as advanced as other students. When writing an essay we were also never allowed to use personal words because that meant it would take away from the meaning and credibility of your essay. In my opinion writing in high school

My experience with English has changed drastically from middle school to college. Being in middle school I have really had to do much of a big paper, but as I progressed through college I’ve realized there much more that has to be added. I had always wondered why middle school was so easy but as years went on, I realized that advancing to college there’s a lot more requirements and importance to writing. In middle school, I was young and just starting to really realize what an essay was and after high school I really understood what an essay consists of. No matter how

Through the course of this semester and taking Advanced Writing in Business Administration, I realized that I had developed as a writer and learned something new with each assignment. I have an argumentative style of writing and with this course I explored different writing styles. With every assignment, there was something that intrigued me into researching about the topics and working on them.

Writing is a complex process, with its countless rules, allowing authors to write limitless possibilities. Over thousands of years, writing has evolved, styles have been created, and genres now exist. In Verlyn Klinkenborg’s, “Several short sentences about writing”, along with Paul Graham’s, “The Age of the Essay”, the reader is taught to ‘notice what you notice’, while avoiding the rules that were taught to us students during high school. One must forget the ‘high school’ rules about writing, as “Most of the received wisdom about how writing works is not only wrong but harmful” (Klinkenborg, Prologue), according to Klinkenborg. It doesn’t matter if high school taught the hamburger style paragraph or the double-stuffed Oreo paragraph, it is presumably wrong, according to Klinkenborg and Graham. For what reason should every paragraph follow the same repetitive sentence structure in every essay,

It seems sad to admit but I am in college and just learned the essence of essays. My teacher is very visual and it is helpful to me. Everyone learns a different way, so some instructors techniques may not even be knocking on the door of some students brains when it comes to writing. Schuman stated that students come to college unable to write and leave the same way. To some students writing is as mysterious as a foreign language so this could be true. No matter how many times you have heard what the details of a paper are: a topic, introduction, body paragraphs and a conclusion, these things have no meaning. Until you know what they mean you are just putting a bunch of words together and calling it an essay. Knowing the details of a paper helps for better understanding. Instead of just grading a paper and assuming the student did not take time to think it over, or was too busy