High School Writings
Simple Mindedness of High School Writings
High school teachers vary greatly through intellect, styles of writing, and specifics on how they want their students to write. Throughout high school many teachers want their students to follow a dedicated outline which denies them the right of finding themselves in writing. Writing in high school has lost its creativity due to lack of spectrum the students can write in. Few teachers had no specifics at all, and these are the teachers that help find what kind of writer a person really is. In my experience, I had a large variety of teachers who mostly helped me become informed in different ways to write. In high school I was taught a variety of ways to write, along with a few different formats; although …show more content…
In high school most teachers I have been taught from would prefer their papers in MLA format. Many teachers in high school might have a different definition of MLA format, so some points in MLA format I might be confused on or some lost in miscommunication. MLA format is not the only format I was taught though, I was also taught APA format in engineering and in one of my final papers in composition. The final paper was a rhetorical analysis using a picture, pieces of writings and other facts found. I was taught to do a work cited and how to use in-text citations with the sources used. Once again, some of this might have been lost in miscommunication between the teacher and students due to lack of explanation.
My strongest writing skills such as use of diction and grammar are from a film literature class I took during my senior year. The class pushed me to use bigger word and a wider view when describing things. Although it was used in primarily literature, I have been able to transfer most of what I learned in that class over to other writings. Literature is the primary focus in high school, most teachers use it for writing examples and outlines the students use. In composition we did more rhetorical analysis and used a spectrum of rhetoric to describe videos, writings, and
High school teachers vary greatly through intellect, styles of writing, and specifics on how they want their students to write. Throughout high school many teachers want their students to follow a dedicated outline which denies them the right of finding themselves in writing. Writing in high school has lost its creativity due to lack of spectrum the students can write in. Few teachers had no specifics at all, and these are the teachers that help find what kind of writer a person really is. In my experience, I had a large variety of teachers who mostly helped me become informed in different ways to write. In high school I was taught a variety of ways to write, along with a few different formats; although …show more content…
In high school most teachers I have been taught from would prefer their papers in MLA format. Many teachers in high school might have a different definition of MLA format, so some points in MLA format I might be confused on or some lost in miscommunication. MLA format is not the only format I was taught though, I was also taught APA format in engineering and in one of my final papers in composition. The final paper was a rhetorical analysis using a picture, pieces of writings and other facts found. I was taught to do a work cited and how to use in-text citations with the sources used. Once again, some of this might have been lost in miscommunication between the teacher and students due to lack of explanation.
My strongest writing skills such as use of diction and grammar are from a film literature class I took during my senior year. The class pushed me to use bigger word and a wider view when describing things. Although it was used in primarily literature, I have been able to transfer most of what I learned in that class over to other writings. Literature is the primary focus in high school, most teachers use it for writing examples and outlines the students use. In composition we did more rhetorical analysis and used a spectrum of rhetoric to describe videos, writings, and