I don't know about anybody else, but I always thought English was just showing you could make complex sentences with "appropriate" words. Essentially, you write about nothing (at most answer a simple question) and make it like a piece of art as much (as a high-schooler is able to do). I always got good grades in high-school english, but coming to college, I saw my grades tank to "average" (which is actually below the inflated B-average we see now in most classes). Why? The truth was revealed to me by an amazing English prof that I have this quarter. Turns out you need to say something in your paper!
According to him, it's like making a case...but something that is non-trivial. So, you state something that is debatable and make as strong a case (using stuff i dunno like structure...) as possible. Apparently, he says that high-schools and colleges stress different things. One is deep-reading of a novel and the other would be simply churning out a paper that sounds ok. Who knew...I now feel more confident about my paper haha...
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yea lol in high school i guess they just value longer and nicer sounding papers, which was totally not the way i wrote. I basically just said what i needed to say and then find myself like a page or two under the limit and having to pad it with useless, fancy sounding language. I don't really know what college papers are supposed to be like since I haven't really had to write a real paper since :P (hooray engineering...)
or jus avoid writing courses like me =P
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