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Feel like you've mastered the 5 Paragraph Essay?
Feel like you've mastered the 5 Paragraph Essay?
Learned everything you needed to know about being a successful academic writer in high school?
Learned everything you needed to know about being a successful academic writer in high school?
College Writing has many differences from high school writing and in order to ensure your successful completion of assignments, you should be aware of how these differences affect what you are being asked to produce.
I LOVE this young lady. Sometimes, it really helps to get advice from your peers. This young lady shares her experiences as a college writer vs. her experiences as a high schooler. She's spot on! In this video, she explains the common features that set these two apart, including style, types of writing, thesis statements, introductions, conclusions, citations, and more. She also includes some tips for success in college writing. Hopefully, this advice can help you feel a little more prepared for college!
Even if you were a great writer in high school, it's likely that you've got a lot to learn about writing in college. In this presentation, we'll explore just one of the major differences in particular, the five paragraph essay.
College Writing.mp4Those who prefer to read the slides and presentation transcript, click here for the original powerpoint and notes.
High School Vs. College Writing.pdfTo meet the expectations of university writing, you will need to unlearn rules you may have learned in high school. Those rules may have helped you to plan and write your essays by providing a ready-made structure you could fit your ideas into, but continuing to rely on these rules will limit your freedom to develop more sophisticated arguments and a more mature style. This PDF discusses some important differences between high school rules and university expectations.
"My Five-Paragraph-Theme Theme" by Ed White- a satirical example of the traditional five-paragraph-theme (essay) common in high school.
Without citing literacy theory, White discusses how the five-paragraph essay stifles the development of writers. He concedes that the five-paragraph essay is a great way for students to develop some sort of organizational structure but with that comes a student applying a formula rather than truly writing, or more importantly, becoming a writer.
white-my-five-paragraph-theme-theme.pdfOther writing strategies should be mastered and incorporated too such as compare/contrast because at least this strategy would force the writer to consider more than just getting a good grade through illustration.
White is not suggesting that we abandon the five-paragraph essay. Instead we should approach how we teach it for what it is, a way to pass essay tests. After mastering that, we need to teach them to be writers.
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