Application essays and college writing

mathmom
Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:37:10 +0000

My son has had at least one or two creative writing assignments a year - they are usually the ones that have him in tears in the middle of the night. They generally write several longer research papers in history classes and a half dozen or so analytical papers in English. The English papers is where I see the real difference between big public high school and small private where I went. His teachers have been pretty good, but it takes much longer for them to read the papers. With smaller classes I was generally assigned a 3 to 5 page paper every single week in English rarely anything longer though I wrote some longer research papers in history classes. When I got to college writing papers was never an issue though my papers tended to be on the short side. Luckily they usually included as much info as kids less used to writing.