In high school, I was taught many writing strategies that were able to help me improve my essay. Outlining and free writing are two techniques that were taught to me in high school are now being taught to me in college. I feel doing an outline before the essay is a great approach to writing the best essay possible. It is extremely helpful because with a good outline, your essay is basically complete. The last thing you have to do is insert transitional sentences and etc. I like my essay to have a nice flow so I use this strategy as much as possible.
Free writing is the second technique I enjoy using. This involves a rule where you have to continuously write and don’t take your pen off the paper. I learned about this in high school but it was until college that I was taught to continue writing” I don’t know what to write” when nothing pertaining to the topic comes to your mind because eventually your mind will have something to write about the specific topic. This is a strategy I use a lot when the topic is difficult and my thought process is slower than normally.
