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Entering the Conversation: Wait? I get to give my opinion?

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Throughout high school and middle school I was normally taught how to write essays. First I was taught how to write a paragraph in elementary school. Five sentences and you have a paragraph. Of course that doesn't really matter how many sentences you have. It's just what my teachers taught me when I was younger. As you get older though, in middle school, the teachers think you're so smart now and have you start writing essays! Yippie! I was so not overjoyed with having to write essays with the structure of intro, three paragraph body, and a conclusion. It was the worst. Honestly, I really didn't like writing when I was younger. Maybe it was because of all the structured writing we had to do, really killed my creativity. Although, there were some teachers throughout my schooling that really pushed us as students to expand our creativity through writing. I even had a teacher in middle school named Mr. Myers that created a writing club for our whole class and called...