Fulfilling the assignment for the teacher sometimes makes you feel like you're a member of a writing assembly line. There's nothing personal about it. How do you put you in your writing?
At the end of the semester, I asked one of the students I TA for how he felt about his writing, or how it improved. He said, "Well, I don't know, I changed all the topic sentences to how you like them."
I failed. Somehow, this student slipped through the system, feeling like he had to meet requirements that were meaningless to him.
Keep in mind that there are many different ways to write a good paper. The teacher usually teaches one structure as an example, but if your reader can understand your new, different, or creative style and you get your point across, then you've succeeded as a writer. You don't need to fold to the mold of assembly writing.
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