My writing and adjustments to college

In response to the question: " So what changes would you like to make to your writing as you adjust to college?"

As I adjust to college, one major change I would like to make to my writing in the college environment would definitely be opening my mind to various styles of writing. In my high school experiences they teach and focus primarily on one specific type of writing in English classes from freshman to senior year. All other subjects, whether it was sciences, mythology, or even secondary courses that aren't even part of the core subjects, all focus on and expect writing to be in the same form and style.


In college, and especially post college, writing varies greatly according to the field as well as the subject matter. Though I absolutely love it compared to writing in high school due to the variety and more interesting forms of writing, I find it hard sometimes to adapt because the typical high school style of writing is so ingrained in me.

This is the main thing I plan to focus on correcting in my writing as I adapt to college. I plan to approach different types of writing styles and forms with more of an open mind and learn along the way as I work on and complete various works of writing in different styles.

Another thing that closely goes along with this is precision. Mainly to me it seems like the different types of writing styles are designed to suit what the writing is trying to accomplish in the most efficient manner possible. This is something I plan to work on adapting to better. High school writing seemed to me to be a stretch of how far one could expand on an idea, which is not a bad thing necessarily, but at times it would seem like there was a length requirement of the various works that would be difficult to reach, thus the point was to be as broad and generalized as possible and to include material just for the purpose of meeting that requirement.

College writing I have encountered thus far has been the exact opposite, where there is an incredible wealth of information, ideas, and arguments that need to all be communicated and presented. Here the goal is not to be as long and drawn out as possible, but be as clear, concise, and efficient as possible with writing to communicate the information, ideas, and arguments without making an excessively huge mess of words that just makes for a reading catastrophe.

This goal to implement much more efficient word choice and way of writing supplements that of open mindedness to various forms of writing as I adapt to college.