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Scribbles · 36-40, F
Sometimes. I mostly struggled when it was a "write an essay about anything" assignment in high school. Sometimes I put too much work into the research portion of it and then didn't have enough time to do well at the writing it out part.
I hated essays because my teacher was very inconsistent in grading and Most essays had to do with whatever piece of literature we were reading, and then was thrown into "wrote about a modern topic" land, and the format was more loose and less formal.
Suddenly Most of my classmates would be writing an essay about why strawberry cheesecake was the best dessert and I'd be in shock, because I felt essays ought to be about something scientifically important and worth reading, or something about literature that was stupid and trival about the Great Gatsby that no one will ever care about.
I wanted to write something worthwhile, and wanted to be a journalist and tries to marry reporting with essay writing, which didn't work real well. I was drawn to writing about federal disaster relief or grade curving, drug addiction in high schoolers, etc. And my.essays tended to be similar to the way alot of internet articles are now, and sprinkled in the supporting information like you would an essay. It would take me forever because I'd be researching much longer then my classmates.
I did not get good grades.
It wasn't until the year was done that I figured out that all the teacher cared about was that we had periods in all the right places on the citation page and that we had thesis statement "that caught an audience's attention". He also did not like my topics. Would have been nice to know his grading criteria ahead of time.
He once failed me for missing two periods on the citation page. Lol
If I had to do his class all over again, I'd write about menstrual topics and focus on the punctuation on the citation page and creative thesis statements and let him figure out some other way to give me a bad grade and complain about the topic. :D
I hated essays because my teacher was very inconsistent in grading and Most essays had to do with whatever piece of literature we were reading, and then was thrown into "wrote about a modern topic" land, and the format was more loose and less formal.
Suddenly Most of my classmates would be writing an essay about why strawberry cheesecake was the best dessert and I'd be in shock, because I felt essays ought to be about something scientifically important and worth reading, or something about literature that was stupid and trival about the Great Gatsby that no one will ever care about.
I wanted to write something worthwhile, and wanted to be a journalist and tries to marry reporting with essay writing, which didn't work real well. I was drawn to writing about federal disaster relief or grade curving, drug addiction in high schoolers, etc. And my.essays tended to be similar to the way alot of internet articles are now, and sprinkled in the supporting information like you would an essay. It would take me forever because I'd be researching much longer then my classmates.
I did not get good grades.
It wasn't until the year was done that I figured out that all the teacher cared about was that we had periods in all the right places on the citation page and that we had thesis statement "that caught an audience's attention". He also did not like my topics. Would have been nice to know his grading criteria ahead of time.
He once failed me for missing two periods on the citation page. Lol
If I had to do his class all over again, I'd write about menstrual topics and focus on the punctuation on the citation page and creative thesis statements and let him figure out some other way to give me a bad grade and complain about the topic. :D