similarities and differences between college students coming from high school and students that are older and have more life experience

First of all, what are YOUR ideas on this topic. Are you to write a comparison/contrast essay on it? If so, here are some webpages that will help you with the prewriting and writing of such a paper:

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/comparison.htm

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/catalogue.html
and http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/comparcontrast.html

Please re-post and let me know what YOU think the similarities (comparison) and differences (contrast) are between these two ideas.

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