Standardized Essay Writing: An Inhibitory Process At any given time, spread out around the world, there are English professors falling asleep as they grade writing assignments. A mind numbing, insanely boring essay rests beneath the semi-conscious professor’s head, collecting drool, as he or she struggles to grade an essay devoid of any thought. Debatably needless and unwanted, standardized essay writing was put into use in order to help students write coherently and with purpose. …showed first 75 words of 735 total…

…showed last 75 words of 735 total…or her purpose to an audience. Every single person is unique. Therefore, it is within the realm of possibility that an almost unlimited number of styles could be used in essay writing. A specific “recipe” for essay writing is not needed. This “recipe” only inhibits a writer’s creativity and limits the options a writer has to make a reader understand the purpose of the essay. Standardization is a stranglehold on the neck of thought.