Journal Ten
Megan McInerney
Writing for College Success
Instructor Elizabeth Isenkul
October 27, 2017
Journal Ten
Students have been trained to write a certain way since entering primary education. Personal writing-times taught young students to form sentences together, “Brief constructed responses” taught developing sentences to form a well-constructed body paragraph with evidence, and, from that moment on, students have been drilled each year in how to write an essay. Hopefully, each year has offered students new levels of refinement and technique through the guidance of their teachers. The greatest shift that I have known in my writing came with the transition from high school to college. I now write in the way that I feel- earnestly and with the goal of educating my reader about the subject rather than attempting to fabricate something profound. Outside of these journals, I also have consistently adopted the habit of writing assignments in proper essay format for the sake of my professors.