University Writing

When I went to high school one of my subjects was the English language. Actually, I did not have many writing assignments, but I liked to write in English. I think that at that time my strengths in writing were for example to summarise a story. That was easy and I liked to do that. Moreover, I thought that I was a relatively good writer, but after doing my A-levels I went to university to study English and that is when I noticed that I was not as good as I thought in English writing. From the first semester onwards I had writing skills classes where I had to write essays on different topics, such as Cause and Effect essays and a Statement of Purpose. The first thing I learned was formatting, which I had never done before, respectively, I did not need to do that at school. Furthermore, I learned many other things such as structuring and planning essays. Sometimes I felt as if I had never written essays in English before since everything was new to me and I had to get used to all the essay requirements of my lecturer.
Fortunately, the writing practice over the past four semesters has had a huge impact on my knowledge of writing academic essays in English.