<p>Hey i wrote this for a practice test, and i want your feedback :) thanks for your time</p>
<p>prompt: Do people accomplish more when they are allowed to do things in their own way? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.</p>
<p>my essay:
Yes, I believe people accomplish more when they are allowed to do things their own way. In many cases, traditional teaching methods and rigorous codes prevent many students and others from doing their tasks as successfully and creatively as possible. While there are some people who can be very successful following rules, there is a plethora of others who need to do things their own way to maximize potential perfection. Every person is made differently, thinks differently, and synthesizes information differently. Would you want to hurt the chances of a better job or better creation of a piece or work?
First of all, there is the example of schools. All schools in the U.S. are required to follow a teaching curriculum and a certain way of teaching. Although many of these methods are found to be beneficial, it is without doubt that they do not work for everyone. For example, in To Kill A Mockingbird, young Scout already knows how to read and being in first grade, is extremely advanced for her age. The teacher, Mrs. Caroline scolds her for being ahead and tells her to stop reading as to follow the school curriculum. Just like this, I am positive that there are students who could be excelling well beyond the boundary this rigid structural way of teaching has set. Allowing students to do things their own way, would indefinitely help them accomplish more.
Another good example is set by the workers of our country. Many office-like environments have their employees following a specific code and order/way of working to accomplish their individualized tasks. My personal encounter of the employee discontent of this is from my father, who works in a similar office setting. He always complains that, If I were allowed to do things my way, Id finish the work more quickly and efficiently! In the midst of this, many workers are actually punished for using their mind creatively to solve problems. Forcing people to do things a certain way is sure to have a negative impact on the mental abilities, specifically creativity, of our people. Do you want to turn people into mindless machines?
Also, having to follow rules completely ruins the idea of thinking outside the box. Many discoveries, like the discovery of the structure of deoxyribose nucleic acid by Watson and Crick came to be as a result of sitting around and thinking outside of the box. A colleague of the great scientist James Watson remarked that Watson was always lounging around, arguing about problems instead of doing experiments. He concluded that There is more than one way of doing good science. It was Watsons form of idleness, the scientist went on to say, that allowed him to solve the greatest of all biological problems: the discovery of the structure of DNA. It is a point worth remembering in a society overly concerned with efficiency.
Conclusively, I stress the importance of allowing each individual to be allowed to do things their own way, with the hope that they will accomplish more. We must take the first steps to move away from a highly pedantic society. Remembering the examples of Watson and Scout, we must understand that some things are best done without the boundaries set by much of todays society. Overcoming this fear of having to have everything structural is sure to allow people to accomplish much on their own; much, much more than they would have working in with a rigid set of rules.</p>