Writing About Writing

Many different ideas and feelings are brought up when I would hear a teacher assign a paper. Although I always end up with a decent grade in high school papers, I would still wonder if it was really a well written paper. So far every English class I’ve had the teacher spends most of the year teaching about how to structure a paper into five paragraphs and how to use correct grammar. However, I know that there is more to writing than just these two things. Sometimes it was frustrating when getting back an essay covered in red writing of what is incorrect but no explanation. I feel like they thought it was easier to let students write incorrectly and then fix it, rather than teach it properly in the first place. However, this is extremely hard to learn from. English is sometimes hard for me to tackle because there is not one right or wrong answer. In this class I would like to spend time learning how to take my papers from sounding overly structure to having my own style. I also want to transition my writing from a high school level to a college level.