High-School Writing Standards

High School writing standards significantly vary from college writing assignments because of how independent thinking and analysis are the epicenter. The most glaring difference between college writing and high school is the amount of independent thinking that needs to be done to understand the prompt and answer it correctly. In high school from my personal experience I felt a lot of things were more straightforward and it only required minimal critical thinking but focused more on the structure being correct or the grammar being correct. Also confiding to the writing templates that they had given. This is best exemplified in the common core text when it states that developing “... the topic thoroughly by selecting the most significant and