11-07-2015, 04:40 PM
(11-07-2015, 04:33 PM)6andcounting Wrote: In high school, I had to do essay style writing prompts in every course every year (except math classes) to practice writing timed essays for the state standardized tests all PA students had to take in the spring of 11th grade. Just like for the state standardized tests, the facts or correctness of the statements in the essay were irrelevant. It was graded solely on how it looked as an essay. Grammar mistakes were okay as well, as long as they didn't make it difficult to understand what you were writing.
The only research that had to be done was for academic research papers in English classes.
None of this writing is applicable to business communication, the work place or anything in real life. Most of it isn't even relevant to college writing, except maybe the research papers from English class. And almost no one in college, except English major, use MLA formatting, and that was the only thing used in grade school.
The most productive writing classes I took in college were a business class, econ class and poetry.
Poetry seems odd, but it actually forced me out of my comfort zone and taught me a lot about word choice and how the flow of even a history essay can change how it is perceived.
