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the_wanlorn) wrote2004-11-29 01:40 pm
the_wanlorn) wrote2004-11-29 01:40 pm
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Elements of Writing Sucks
Okay, um, can you say pissed? Let's talk about Nire's research paper. She did all of her research in about three hours of hardcore skimming. All of it was on jazz forms and one major artist; she did absolutely no research on the '60s. She then wrote the paper in two hours the night before it was due. Her sentences were a choppy stream of conscious. The conclusions she drew were utter fabrications, leaps of logic from her rudimentary knowledge of the '60s. There were huge logic gaps and her thesis was incredibly broad so that there was no way she could not reach the minimum page requirement. It was a horrible, slapdash job and she knew it. She fully expected the teacher to rip it apart and give it a very low grade. The teacher handed back her paper today. There were two comments she saw: "What kind of citation is this?" and "1895-1960s seems too much history - how about a broader overview in 1-2 paragraphs..." These were both on the first page, so it looked promising. Nire flipped to the next page - blank. As was the next. And the next. She flipped through page after page to find them all free of the teacher's blue scribbles. The last page yielded an admonition to fix the citations and the teacher's overall comments. Summed up, they were "Reorganize a bit so that all reasons are up front and ease your reader into the concept." She flipped through again in case she missed something. But no. She copped her friend's paper, which had taken a full day of writing and untold amounts of research to complete. Blue covered it and long, helpful comments were found on the back. Another person's paper, nine pages of bloodsweatandtears, yielded the same mess of blue. ... I can't believe I'm mad about not getting my paper torn apart. Even better, one of my group members didn't bother to read and concrit. So I really only have one good concrit, which I'm actually probably tossing out most of because it wouldn't really make sense, given my thesis. My paper was utter shit. It really is, still, since I haven't fixed anything. But what do I get? A 3/2. I can't believe this. I was looking forward to the teacher's criticism so that I had other opinions than my own on what I could make better. But I get... nothing? What kind of shit is this? Elements of Writing is a horrible class. It's not teaching me how to write good papers. It's teaching me that I don't need to put effort into life because my slap-dash jobs are good enough. If this is true, I'm diappointed in, well, life. SO FREAKIN MAD!!! I have so much more to Expect more |
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Some of my friends and I are wondering who you are and where you got our LJ names from. We're not weirded out or anything, just a little curious.
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Wow, that was a lovely runon sentence...
Anyway, if y'all want me to take you off my friends list, I will. :-)
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It's nice to see that the Academy still has dark, smart, angsty, out-of-place students and that the line didn't die out with my class. :)
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(Anonymous) 2004-11-29 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)--Lando
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you just cover up the guilt with anger.
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:-D You know you like all the attention you've been getting on this post though... heh.
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Seriously. I'll send it to you. It's all choppychoppychoppy conscious stream of monkey poo!
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My Bad
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