Writing assignments are mostly not graded on their content
No, not in high school. High school teachers need writing of a minimum length, because they are trying to judge grammar and vocabulary, so that approach is appropriate to the context. It becomes a problem in other contexts.
Content-based writing and original content-based writing are taught, but they are only taught in higher forms of education, so a lot of people get stuck in the teacher-pleasing mode.
I suspect a lot of people, like myself, learn “content-based writing” by trying to communicate, e.g. in their ‘personal life’ or at work. I don’t think I learned anything significant by writing in my own “higher forms of [‘official’] education”.
No, not in high school. High school teachers need writing of a minimum length, because they are trying to judge grammar and vocabulary, so that approach is appropriate to the context. It becomes a problem in other contexts.
Content-based writing and original content-based writing are taught, but they are only taught in higher forms of education, so a lot of people get stuck in the teacher-pleasing mode.
I suspect a lot of people, like myself, learn “content-based writing” by trying to communicate, e.g. in their ‘personal life’ or at work. I don’t think I learned anything significant by writing in my own “higher forms of [‘official’] education”.