The purpose, after all, is to develop ones writing skills for college. ... The students are still bound by the limits on the structure of the essay. ... We are given book reports, we read books on our own, students are constantly set in front of stories, yet we are never, or rarely, given a chance to create our own. ... Most everyone reads books after college. ... A question asked by many of my friends, and surly other students across the nation: Will the teachers allow and give credit to a story, a novel, maybe even a script, or must we, the students, be bound by the restraints of the ess...

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