Essay #1 Reflection
1) How do you think you did?
HONESTLY, I think I deserve MUCH better than an NP. I put hours into the writing and researching of the essay. Even more than that, I had excellent ideas that I KNOW I communicated in an understandable manner. My ideas of how the rebellion was started, sustained, and ended were all delivered specifically with an emphasis on the injustices of colonial social classes; my theme of choice and my thesis.
2)What have you learned about your writing process?
Apparently, it's not good enough. If I understood why I deserve such a horrible grade, I could more properly evaluate how to fix my writing process; but since I don't understand how any of the feedback I received is true at all, I can't fix my writing process.
Possibly, my ideas are not strong enough and I need to spend more time formulating stronger ideas that have more to do with my thesis.
Possibly, my manners of expressing my ideas in writing are completely askew and I should never dare to type or hold a pen again.
Possibly, Craig is a complete nut job and doesn't have any idea in the world what he's talking about. But that would mean that whoever gave him his degree is a nut job and consequently the institution they represent must be filled with nut jobs and therefore the majority of the world must be completely out of their loon and I'm the only sane one.
Yeah, that sounds about right. Jerks.
3) What have you learned about your writing philosophy?
Basically, it sucks. My idea of writing and what's good and what's not is horribly queer and totally indifferent to that which the global standards have been set to mirror. My best is failing. I gave my all on the essay and I received a failing grade.
If I were to employ my wonderful knowledge of writing to explain my essay, I would describe my failing grade as simply foreshadowing for the rest of my life.
My best will be perceived as a NO PASS by the world.
Who likes the world anyways?
4) What have you learned about college writing versus high school writing?
I learned that I like high school more than PSEC.
I learned that college is full of instructors who are arrogant enough in their perceptions of academic standards to believe that they are the supreme when it comes to their subject.
But I suppose it would take an equal person to be able to identify one of these types of instructors.
In all seriousness though, learning to succeed at college writing will require me to develop a distaste for all of my current academic perceptions and achievements. I will have to rise to a new height; overlooking the fact that I'm horribly afraid of heights.
HONESTLY, I think I deserve MUCH better than an NP. I put hours into the writing and researching of the essay. Even more than that, I had excellent ideas that I KNOW I communicated in an understandable manner. My ideas of how the rebellion was started, sustained, and ended were all delivered specifically with an emphasis on the injustices of colonial social classes; my theme of choice and my thesis.
2)What have you learned about your writing process?
Apparently, it's not good enough. If I understood why I deserve such a horrible grade, I could more properly evaluate how to fix my writing process; but since I don't understand how any of the feedback I received is true at all, I can't fix my writing process.
Possibly, my ideas are not strong enough and I need to spend more time formulating stronger ideas that have more to do with my thesis.
Possibly, my manners of expressing my ideas in writing are completely askew and I should never dare to type or hold a pen again.
Possibly, Craig is a complete nut job and doesn't have any idea in the world what he's talking about. But that would mean that whoever gave him his degree is a nut job and consequently the institution they represent must be filled with nut jobs and therefore the majority of the world must be completely out of their loon and I'm the only sane one.
Yeah, that sounds about right. Jerks.
3) What have you learned about your writing philosophy?
Basically, it sucks. My idea of writing and what's good and what's not is horribly queer and totally indifferent to that which the global standards have been set to mirror. My best is failing. I gave my all on the essay and I received a failing grade.
If I were to employ my wonderful knowledge of writing to explain my essay, I would describe my failing grade as simply foreshadowing for the rest of my life.
My best will be perceived as a NO PASS by the world.
Who likes the world anyways?
4) What have you learned about college writing versus high school writing?
I learned that I like high school more than PSEC.
I learned that college is full of instructors who are arrogant enough in their perceptions of academic standards to believe that they are the supreme when it comes to their subject.
But I suppose it would take an equal person to be able to identify one of these types of instructors.
In all seriousness though, learning to succeed at college writing will require me to develop a distaste for all of my current academic perceptions and achievements. I will have to rise to a new height; overlooking the fact that I'm horribly afraid of heights.
This entry was posted by vincentcoppola, on
Tuesday, October 23, 2007.
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October 23, 2007 at 1:59 PM
Amen Brother!!!!!!!!!!!