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This section consists of three recent university graduates’ perspectives on college writing. Casey was homeschooled, obtained her GED and went straight to college. Her recommendations include less structured schooling and choice in reading and writing, For college writing she feels that by answering specific questions formulated by the teacher regarding a topic, her writing took focus and improved greatly. Steven was a non-traditional student and obtained his 4-year degree at 40. Through his community college and university careers he faced cancer and divorce but his writing kept improving. He attributed this to his professors, his own seriousness of purpose, peer and faculty feed back, numerous formal and informal writing assignments. Lindsay is a traditional student and lists too many things that high school teachers “should” do to improve high school students’ writing so that they would be ready for college and hit the ground running.