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jecca_mehlota) wrote2007-03-11 02:22 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2007-03-11 02:22 pm
Why, yes, I am doing homework now.
English Comp. I cannot stand this class. It needs to be over. Now.
The thing I simply cannot stand about this English Comp class is that I cannot give the hypothetical reader of my essay any credit. None at all.
Earlier this year, we all had to write a narrative essay (that is, an essay-that-is-actually-a-story that is told by using dialogue instead of just walls of text). It could be fictional, so of course I went with that option (one can only write so many nonfictional essays about one's own life before one is really rather sick of it). There were exactly two characters with speaking roles. It was very clear that there were only two people present. I must've said it at least three times in the first three paragraphs alone. One female (who was the first-person narrator), one male.
I did not always specify who was speaking. For example, in one instance, character A asked a question of character B. I'd include that handy, "I asked him" tag at the end of the sentence. New paragraph and the reply, but no stating of who was doing the speaking, and in every single instance of this, the teacher wrote a comment on my paper telling me that she was confused as to who was supposed to be talking.
For the revision, I thought I'd gone a little overboard, because there was not one spoken part that didn't then clarify who was speaking, and all the [name]/s/he saids were kind of annoying to me. Oh, well. I get it back and look it over and... The teacher was still confused. Who is "he"?
THERE'S ONLY ONE MALE THERE! WHO DO YOU THINK?!
NO ONE IN THE CLASS FOUND THIS CONFUSING! AUGH!
I cannot believe how much I have to dumb down this stuff. I don't want to have to include "[name] said" after every small bit of dialogue! I should not have to use only names! We have third person pronouns for a reason! Allow me to use them!
The thing I simply cannot stand about this English Comp class is that I cannot give the hypothetical reader of my essay any credit. None at all.
Earlier this year, we all had to write a narrative essay (that is, an essay-that-is-actually-a-story that is told by using dialogue instead of just walls of text). It could be fictional, so of course I went with that option (one can only write so many nonfictional essays about one's own life before one is really rather sick of it). There were exactly two characters with speaking roles. It was very clear that there were only two people present. I must've said it at least three times in the first three paragraphs alone. One female (who was the first-person narrator), one male.
I did not always specify who was speaking. For example, in one instance, character A asked a question of character B. I'd include that handy, "I asked him" tag at the end of the sentence. New paragraph and the reply, but no stating of who was doing the speaking, and in every single instance of this, the teacher wrote a comment on my paper telling me that she was confused as to who was supposed to be talking.
For the revision, I thought I'd gone a little overboard, because there was not one spoken part that didn't then clarify who was speaking, and all the [name]/s/he saids were kind of annoying to me. Oh, well. I get it back and look it over and... The teacher was still confused. Who is "he"?
THERE'S ONLY ONE MALE THERE! WHO DO YOU THINK?!
NO ONE IN THE CLASS FOUND THIS CONFUSING! AUGH!
I cannot believe how much I have to dumb down this stuff. I don't want to have to include "[name] said" after every small bit of dialogue! I should not have to use only names! We have third person pronouns for a reason! Allow me to use them!