Coming in as a freshman I didn’t really know what to expect out of college writing and I wasn’t sure what exactly we would be doing in a college english class. As we went along I really felt my writing was improving. In high school I never focused on the audience and how to specifically shape my argument to address a specific audience. This was something I had never really thought about focusing and working on before and it was sort of a subconscious improvement throughout the class. I didn’t know at the time that I was really focusing on that and really working on shaping my essay until I was working on editing my drafts and I felt the paper was really addressing the group of people I was trying to get my point across to. My advice to incoming freshman is to not be against college writing and actually try to work on your writing. I think most freshman think of it as their “easy class” and that it will be the one you won’t really have to work for, but in reality just as i have come to learn, throughout your major, no matter what it is, writing will never go away. So if you are given the chance to work on your writing and to continue improving it, take the opportunity because you will be thankful.
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