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21/5/03 23:19![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schmericaI have come to the realization during the last few weeks that while I am a good writer, I write completely sucktastic papers (I'm using "papers", throughout this entry, mainly in the sense of analytical essays and to a much lesser extent, research papers -- I don't have any problems with the various other types of writings my classes require). The papers are well-written in the sense that I write sentences are paragraphs that sound good and are put together well -- but this does not, really, make the papers themselves any less sucktastic.
This saddens me. I mean, my high school never bothered to teach me anything useful about paper-writing (beyond the "introduction, body, conclusion" basics), and god knows 10th grade honors English was a mixture of pointless test preparation and grading by the "out of a hat" method. But it disturbs me slightly that I've managed two years at SRC without substantially improving. (You would think -- or I would think, at least -- that writing and thinking workshop would go over, at least briefly, the sort of writing that we'd be spending a great percentage of our time on and that many of our high schools didn't cover at all. But not so much.)
I'm been lazy about it, too, because it's mainly only hurt my grades in seminar classes -- but even the other ones could be better than they are. And this does not bode well for my future academic plans.
Something to worry and think about over the summer, I guess. Along with trying to remember and cover all the French I haven't spoken or thought about since December.
This saddens me. I mean, my high school never bothered to teach me anything useful about paper-writing (beyond the "introduction, body, conclusion" basics), and god knows 10th grade honors English was a mixture of pointless test preparation and grading by the "out of a hat" method. But it disturbs me slightly that I've managed two years at SRC without substantially improving. (You would think -- or I would think, at least -- that writing and thinking workshop would go over, at least briefly, the sort of writing that we'd be spending a great percentage of our time on and that many of our high schools didn't cover at all. But not so much.)
I'm been lazy about it, too, because it's mainly only hurt my grades in seminar classes -- but even the other ones could be better than they are. And this does not bode well for my future academic plans.
Something to worry and think about over the summer, I guess. Along with trying to remember and cover all the French I haven't spoken or thought about since December.
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22/5/03 13:31 (UTC)Very glad to hear some grad schools offer such a course. Mine don't, and it sucks.
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22/5/03 17:03 (UTC)