English...again (vent)
Augh... the random "analysis essay" on english is back..... and I did less than satisfactory. and you know what I got marked down for? The points I was making!! "You're stating the obvious" Because my point was to show how obvious this is! "You don't use any real examples" because theyre irrelevent!!!
I swear that this man has it out for me, complaining about the points I made and using them as negatives. I can understand him saying I was reptitive - even though I was trying to simply fill space since got to the point faster than he wanted me to - he set a minimum of 2 pages on an essay that would really only amount to a full page of quality arguments tops.
I have the option of redoing the essay, but it has to be on the same freaking topic with the same setup - which has me royally vexed - and if I happen to do worse the second time around it will count against me. In other words, I gamble my grade by replacing my assignment. Since I already hate the topic and can't extract enough content as is, I'm probably going to end up taking this stupid grade, and hope to [insert deity of preference] that the year flies by quickly without any major troubles (such as dropping below the 90%).
Who assigns an essay with the prompt "write an essay analyzing [noun]" THERE'S NO PURPOSE TO THE ANALYSIS. what makes an analysis essay an analysis essay is the fact that it uses analysis to prove its point rather than simply stating evidence and say "here ya go." You can't simply say write an essay analyzing this and now it's an analysis essay because the analysis will be disjointed and serve no purpose. To have an analysis essay create a prompt that asks to verify a statement or prove a point. You can't say analyze this and expect a sharp focused essay. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOUR TOPIC IS ADS. Half of my class had absolutely no idea what the hell is was we were supposed to write, and the other half just didn't care.
This teacher makes WAY too many assumptions when assigning things, and because of these assumptions he thinks the answer is SOOOO obvious to us.... When we see it in an opposite view. Example: in a rhetorical terms quiz we had to identify the question "do you enjoy summer vacation" as a rhetorical question because he ASSUMES that EVERYONE loves summer vacations therefore the question isn't worth answering. I can tell you right now that if it weren't for ATDP I'd HATE summer vacation because there's simply NOTHING TO FREAKING DO. Second assumption he makes that creates confusion among the class. "EVERYONE has seen enough printed ads to write a full 2-3 page essay." WHO THE HELL PAYS ATTENTION TO THAT MANY ADS!?! one. I spend most of my time ONLINE: a completely different type of advertising where slogans, logos, and fancy images aren't normally used and "congrats you're our 100000 visitor! click here for your prize!!!" are much more common. The style of advertising is completely opposite of what he's looking for. He assumes that EVERYONE reads magazines to the point where they've seen enough ads to write about them. two. I DON'T READ MAGAZINES. the only magazines in my house are Mechanical Engineering magazines, that don't have flashy ads for trendy products, so the topic he's looking for isn't present. three. When I pointed this out to him, (the fact that there aren't magazines in my house and most ads I see are ONLINE and completely different) he says: you could write about that too... just use them as examples for one of these topics" IT DOESN'T WORK. Should I mention that he'll cut anyone's essay practically in half when they use absolutes and here he is making so many assumptions with absolutes that had I written an essay using his quotes he probably would have bled to death on the paper with red ink?
I feel like I should also mention this same teacher considers the term "speakers" when referring to a sound system to be figurative language because speakers don't technically "speak." That'd be like if I said a girl named Asia had a name that was figurative speech because she isn't really Asia. He dosen't fully justify his claims, and as a result makes assumptions that are faulty at best.
I just can't stand it.