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Elementary - Focused on learning cursive and short imaginative stories, good for clear and concise writing
Middle School - Wrote many five paragraph essays and my teacher was stern
High School - An emphasis was put on research papers, I focused on word selection and sourcing
College Admissions Essay - First time writing about something very personal to me, made me more open to sharing and listening
College - Started writing for myself, leaning on personal growth

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Elementary school:

The earliest of my writing memories begins in elementary school. Though not extensive, I find that most of my writing is found in the form of daily journals, some of which I find fun to go back and read every once in a while. Additionally, in this era of my writing, I would also write many short stories for my mere amusement. Though, it is important to note that these were extremely incoherent and messy, as expected.

Middle school:

In middle school my writing changed from a care free form of excitement and enjoyment to the generic soulless writing that is found in the middle and high school system. The small papers that I was  assigned were supposed to follow a structured format with no personalization. Ultimately in this period writing went from something that I looked forward to as a creative device and way to express my thoughts and feelings to a systematic format of how to express ideas that weren’t my own.

High School:

My highschool writing only consists of one year however it was unfortunately very similar to my middle school experiences. Topics were limited, and the format under which my papers had to follow were still strict. Additionally grammar became more important to the grading than the actual content and expression of thoughts and ideas.

Community college:

Community college, with a few exceptions, was a much less restrictive place which allowed me to develop my own unique writing style that better compliments my thought process. Subsequently I would attribute most of my growth as a writer during these years, as I began to focus more on what was being said and how I could effectively convey such thoughts in my writing rather than the minor details of how I wrote.

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Elementary: learned how to write in English and to write short stories. I had the freedom to write whatever I wanted. It was also when I wrote my first short story

Middle: I learned a lot more about structure and how to write proper essays. There were a lot of restraints on how to write and the main focus was always proper grammar

High: In high school, I learned a lot more about how to write proper argumentative essays; I also learned a lot about how journalism writing is a lot different than essay writing.

Krithika Subramaniam

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When I develop my understanding for writing I think back when i was in kindergarten I usually wanted to read books that have not alot of writing and something personal I loved like my favorite characters SpongeBob, Spiderman, or sports books. I wasn't the best writer because I remember writing so big and taking up to lines when i write my name or words it took up to spaces on a sheet of paper. As i got older and moved to the 2nd grade i remember i would write what i thought was necessarily insted of adding more my thoughts. fastfoward to 6th grade I was a decent writer i was more inclusive in how i write sentences and i always made sure to write commas decimals and capital letters. Overall my highschool experience made me a great writer because of everthing i went though with writing paper which i did alot.
-Angelo Perez

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Elementary:
I used to write a lot of comics and as I began school I shifted into writing more essays and giving up on writing in my free time.
Highschool:
I began writing diaries and personal stories as well as the school assignments.
Now:
I don't write as much but I am hoping to get back into it.

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Elementary
Did a lot of chapter summaries

Highschool
I had to write a lot of Ib essays

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In elementary school writing came very easy to me. The ability to be able to write about whatever you want really helped bring out creativity throughout my writing.

As time went on, I began to struggle with my writing. Now prompts and topics were being introduced and I was having to write about things that I did not enjoy writing about so my creativity was not being showed throughout my essays.

In high school I finally began to understand how to write and still show my creativity even in pieces I did not enjoy as much.

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Elementary school: learning how to spell individual letters and my name, little sentences, looking back the little things I wrote were fun and cute

Middle School: Learned in more detail, more serious writing, started writing a few paragraphs and writing about ourselves, was never the biggest writter

Highschool: All kinds of writing throughout 4 years, college essays about me, didn't like writing much about myself but enjoyed it after my college essay

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Elementary
I was very fond of Geronimo Stilton books and other kinds of graph novels. At the time I didn't have a phone and so my time was spent reading.

Middle school
This was where grammar started to come into play and we would have to make a cohesive story. So I was more focused on giving small stories about my life. and reading biography's was a thing that I sort of liked.

Highschool
From the start of the past four years to the end the only thing that mattered was making a college essay that would get me to the next path for my education. So making myself seem more interesting to colleges.

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Elementary School: I wrote fantasy stories and poems.

Middle School: I began to post on social media and writing what I am doing in that post.

High School: Took an english class that required a 15-20 page paper as well as other essays.

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Preschool:
When I first was sent to school, I was not able to speak English. Quickly I had to adapt. We would read books about animals and we sang songs, which helped me learn new vocabulary.

Elementary:
In elementary school, my English was a lot better. I was in classes focused on bettering my reading and in those classes I remember doing some research assignments and reading articles. I loved writing and presenting information about myself for events like star student of the week. I also loved writing my own creative short stories.

High School:
In high school, my English was pretty good so I took honors, AP, and regular English classes. I learned the most in these because we would have to write essays in time short time periods. We learned to be concise and courteous in our writing. These are skills I am trying to use in my college career today.

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Elementary school- I really enjoyed writing random little stories and poetry some in school but some outside of school just for fun.

Middle school- I mostly wrote about different things that they made us research in school, and I didn't write for fun but only because I had to for school.

High school- I only wrote for school and I didn’t like writing and I waited until the last minute to write for all my assignments.

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elementary- saying what I enjoy doing, learning how to spell my name, maybe share my favorite color
Jr High- get more in depth with creative writing, learn different styles and discover that narratives are easiest for me
High School- argumentative writing was huge which was not my favorite, research writing was also becoming a normal; never excited for that. Really developed as a writer however, due to all the different pieces I was forced to write.

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During my childhood, drawing was my main creative outlet. There were few words. As I got older, I began writing for school very minimally and texting. Nothing formal or really that creative outside of school. Getting into middle school and early high school, my writing became strictly for class and I followed a formulaic approach to the assignments. I didn't add much creativity to my writing until later in high school, mainly junior and senior year. Senior year I had a really fantastic english teacher that encouraged us to write more personally and creatively. I also got into journalling.

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elementry:
wrote a diary almost everyday, learned english better which was my 2nd language.

middle school:
enjoyed reading frequently, especially fiction text

highschool:
took the most advanced english classes provided to students all four years
able to learn different tips and get a broader perspective of a variety of texts.