Hello,
1)My name is Jayme Vines and one thing about me is I have a twin sister.
2)One of my goals for this semester in this class is to enhance my language abilities when writing essays or short responses. When I’m offering details and discussing a piece of text, a quote, or other areas of writing, I want to be able to sound more specific and clear.
3)Question: How will college writing, differ from high school writing? Are there any differences?
4)A writing guideline I’ve been taught that whenever we write, whether it’s an essay or a brief response, we should always make a rough draft to help organize and put our thoughts and ideas together. Drafting is also beneficial because it allows you to plan, edit, and modify your work before moving on to the final. From middle school to high school, I learned this guideline from my teachers. This rule has an impact on my writing because it can help me improve my writing skills by allowing me to combine my ideas with evidence. This rule is one of the most useful things I’ve learned about writing. It has helped me tremendously 🙂
5)In my personal life, I attempt to write a lot of songs and poems. I write a variety of essays, annotate articles, take notes, and respond to short questions in my academic life.
Jayme, I’m excited that you’re here with us this semester.
Your question is a good one really hard to answer. It depends on a lot of factors, especially what your experience in high school was like.
I think a major turning point between high school and college writing tends to be independence. High school writers are often given a lot of formulae and models or outlines to fill in because they’re first learning to write longer form essays and projects. This is a great way to begin the learning process. In college writing, these support systems fall away most of the time and instead, writers have to be able to look at a writing task and “decode” or figure out how to do the task. Writers have to grow in independence and confidence because they have to do a lot of that organization and development work on their own.
That’s why I focus on growing confidence and independence in this class.