That format was driven into our heads in high school. When I was a freshman in College, I was amazed that very few of my peers could write an essay - a skill I

That format was driven into our heads in high school. When I was a freshman in College, I was amazed that very few of my peers could write an essay - a skill I had thought to be pretty basic. At the time, I wondered, "if they didn't learn how to write an essay in high school, what did they learn?" I never really found out.