College Level Writing Reflection

In collegiate level writing, there are quite a few more things to consider than just the grammar and overall syntax of your essay. Coming into college, I thought I knew everything I needed to know about writing and any essay a professor put in front of me would be a breeze. Unfortunately, I was sadly mistaken. Although my extensive writing practices and assignments allowed me to be able to see the course in its entirety, the theme and workflow of college-level writing involves a great deal more than one would expect. For example, the studies and works of writing experts, such as Elizabeth Wardle, Donna Kain, James Porter, Marilyn Cooper, Carol Berkenkotter, Thomas Huckin, and James Paul Gee demonstrate the extensive nature of writing practices …show more content…
As I am sure you have already been told countless times, college involves much more writing than the typical high school experience and I can attest to this idea. My guide is different because it works for you as a student coming into college and giving you a guide as to what elements each include in reference to writing for different communities. Many of my peers have had to write in all of their classes, including classes like fine arts, theater, and even mathematics. Marilyn Cooper, who I will talk about later on, acknowledges that high school writing and college writing differ in that high school “writing teachers increasingly disenchanted with red-inking errors, delivering lectures on comma splices or on the two ways to organize a comparison-contrast essay, and reading alienated and alienating essays written from a list of topic sentences or in the five-paragraph format” (Cooper 364). While the ability to write for other subjects may not be entirely foreign, the ability and skill to adapt and be cognitively aware of the unique writing communities will give you an advantage over your peers as you aim to impress and fulfill the academic expectations of your varying