Introduction to College Writing for EN100: Transition from high school to college

A handy comparison created by the folks at Southern Methodist University.

To meet the expectations of university writing, you will need to unlearn rules you may have learned in high school. Those rules may have helped you to plan and write your essays by providing a ready-made structure you could fit your ideas into. But continuing to rely on these rules will limit your freedom to develop more sophisticated arguments and a more mature style. This link discusses important differences between high school rules and university expectations. Created at University to Toronto.

Resource adapted from the Dartmouth Institute for Writing and Rhetoric.