Teaching Conference Experience

Throughout my experience at Hofstra, I haven't really had many opportunities to converse with my professors about my writing. In Professor Lays class, however, we had conferences every once in a while during the semester. The best advice I got was on our first paper, which I will not remember the topic off hand. I was so used to writing in high school where there was a set format, "correct papers", and little creativity necessary to get an A. She told me that I should just put my pen to my paper and write whatever came out, and now that is how I write all of my papers.