I feel as though in writing class, especially in High School, I was taught a "headache" full of knowledge and I was suppose to carry this knowledge thought out my life. There were also some specific "rules," you could say, that enabled my thought process to be smoother and hindered my creative juices that teachers tried to scare us of doing. There were two specific rules that were "no-no's" in high school world. One was going "off the top." I can see where this is not good, and this rule still appies to the real world, however, sometimes I feel like it is ok to tie in another subject, if applicable, to your paper. I feel like teachers in high school punished if you in the slightest sense went off topic, and didn't give you a chance. This brings me to another rule which was making the length of the paper such a big deal. I know that there are a lot of students to grade, however I believe that if a student can, with reasonable examples and substance, elaborate and lengthen the maximum page limit. All in all, we were taught well in high school in writing class, however I believe that there were certain "rules" that should not be carried over into the collage world.
