Microtheme: The Differences between College and High School Writing

     This post will be revolved around the Microtheme and how it shows differences between high school and college writing.  Going into it, I thought that I would be writing how I usually would for any essay/writing assignment I had done in the past.  However, after observing how to write a proper Microtheme, this is not the case.  For one, I had to adapt a different writing style while making it.  This, however, gave me more freedom in being able to write what I wanted to, and inserting some opinion into the writing.

    This leads to another thing I learned from the Microtheme: college writing is much different than high school writing.  In high school there was a certain format we always had to follow for each essay we had, 5-6 paragraphs, MLA format, with an intro and conclusion paragraph, and 3-4 body paragraphs supporting your claim in the essay.  We were also encouraged to not be opinionated/unbiased in our essays unless it was specified.  In college, however, there is more flexibility when it comes to our writing.  For one, like stated previously, I am able to sprinkle in a little bit of my own opinion on the subject, as well as my personal experiences with the topic.  I'm also not locked into a certain format, as long as I don't go over a certain page count, I can write the Microtheme with more freedom within that space.  This intrigues me for future writings in class as I'll be expecting to learn a new way to write for each big project that we have.