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11.1 Meeting College Writing Expectations
Learning Objectives
- Understand and describe differences between high school and college writing.
- Recognize some of the core principles and values of higher education.
If you’re like most first-year college students, you’re probably anxious about your first few writing assignments.
Transitioning from being a successful high school writer to being a quality college writer can be difficult. You have to adjust to different learning cultures. You have to accept that college writing is different from high school writing and come to understand how it is different.
These students relay a typical range of first-year college experiences:
Emma: I always got As on my high school papers, so I thought I was a good writer until I came to college and had to completely rewrite my first paper to get a C–.
Javier: I received an F on my first college paper because I “did not include one original thought in the whole paper.” I thought I was reporting on information I had researched.
I didn’t know that I was supposed to add my own thoughts. Luckily,
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