I think my writing voice in high school was more straight to the point and I didn’t know. How to back it with loaded sentences that helped with introducing authors or even sources I would just drop a quote and not solidly connect it to my thesis. I also never looked directly for a thesis in any of my work. I just wrote and never really worked or took a deeper thought on the structure of my writing. I think also I’ve been putting in a lot more personal experiences than I have in the past to help back up my claims this semester. I’ve also learned more structured writing than just the 5 paragraph essay type which is a classic but can only get your points so far because I feel like it limits my writing to only having three points when there are many different sides of arguing or talking about some topic such as empathy. Like the quote sandwich, Barclay and the naysayer have been more helpful than just detecting 3 paragraphs to put your points in and leave it as is. I think it helps stretch and utilize my voice so much better than a 5 paragraph essay that has 5-8 sentences each.
