Response to Freewriting Essay

So in this essay the writer touches upon the fact that freshman entering college have a very formulated, scientific equation that they think they can plug their thoughts into and will receive an "A". The writer obviously does not agree with this because she touches upon the fact that free writing helps up break that mold and that their is something unnatural about the "5 paragraph essay". Obviously that type of essay is not inborn but beat senseless into us every time we are forced to write an essay. We keep reading these essays about how writing is art and that there is no "right" or "wrong" and that passion is lacking in high school writing but it seems to me that there is a lot of talk and no action. Teachers instruct you to be creative and original but to adhere to there specific essay construction "formula". Freewriting does however help students break out of the 5-paragraph essay mold, it's a sort of detox if you will. It helps us make our writing become more fluid because we do not have to stop and think if we are backing up our thesis and if we are using the right words. Freewriting helps students find their opinion on a subject and since it is our own and we have gone through a very organic process we are more connected to what we are writing about. Passion+Purpose= Success!