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Okay so like I said earlier I am a science major. However I applaud those who can do english. My two lowest grades at the university so far are my two english classes. The reason I hate english is your performance is completely dictated by your TA or professor. If you wrote a fucking amazing paper, but your TA deems its shit, it's shit. English is seriously, a difficult, difficult major. Props to you guys. Same with art. Just because the job market after school is maybe smaller, you gotta be talented as fuck and dedicated as fuck to do well in either of those.
No, you were probably just a poor writer. Don't blame others for the grades you get, if you think your paper was amazing and your prof or TA didn't think so don't bitch, set up a meeting ask why you got a low grade listen to them and take notes on what you can improve on then do what they tell you.
Two things a university can't teach you is common sense and accountability you have to find that within yourself.
Or dont follow dorections. I did way better than the actual majors in my english class because i'd take he critiques, apply the advice and get an A. Whereas the english majors would get offended for someone telling them howbto write poetry, change nothing and continue getting mediocre grades.
They werent worse writers then me, but if you ignore what the teacher is actually teaching you shouldn't be surprised when you do shitty.
as an english major, i really don't find it that hard. if your professor's are any good they'll recognize that, just because someone interprets something differently than they do, it doesn't mean they are wrong or that the paper is bad. it really is all about how you read and the evidence you use to back up your argument.
for me, i don't get how science/math/econ majors do what they do. i could never learn and understand so many formulas and theories well enough to just know which to use when you look at a problem. and, specifically for bio and science majors, forget about memorizing all the things they have to memorize in order to do well. i think english is easy compared to all that, just have to read a little and be able to explain why you think what you think. i guess it just goes to show that everyone's mind works differently and everyone is good at different things.
obviously i don't know anything about what kind of class you were taking or how it was run, so i don't know if this applies at all or not, but...meh. i don't want to sound like an ass but there IS no right way to write poetry. you can find great and awful poems from any style, school, technique, movement. so if your professor actually told them "how" (as in style, technique) to write poetry, that's kind of bs. and i personally don't think there should be too much stock put on creative writing grades because it's such a personal thing and there really is no way to grade it well. either its how good the professor thinks it is, in which case it's completely subjective and just one person's opinion, or it's grade purely based on effort, in which case how can a professor really tell how hard you try in comparison with everyone else in the class?
Will be getting an associates in aviation technology and then a bachelor's in some sort of programming! So stoked for first year of college this summer.
Of course there is as many ways to write poetry as people can come up with, that's the beauty of it. And you can and should write it however you want on your own time.
But if you're taking a class you better expect there to be limits put on what you put down on paper and your grade to reflect how well you stay within them. Thats the whole point of the exercises, its not much of a class if they just say 'write something'. If someone says describe X and use examples from your own experiences do it. If someone says use imagery appealing to all five senses do it. Not because its neccesary for poetry, but because they're trying to get you flexible with using words in different ways. Nobody is telling you how poetry (or stories/essays etc) have to be written, but they are telling you how they should be written in this instance. And I personally see some value in that even if its a technique I never use again. Maybe I've been lucky with professors who are unusually clear and vocal with their expectations, and mark strictly based on them though.
again, preaching to the choir. i just didn't know if your professor was giving specific exercises or saying "just write" (which actually is how most creative writing start working after the intro period. it's not really "creative" writing if your professor tells you what to write about/what to do). but yeah, for that type of format where the professor is giving exercises, probably smart to listen to directions.
I go to college for ski resort operations and management, although it is only a diploma, I will most likely be continuing it to a degree in Tourism/Business Management.
This year I was going to school to major in Web Programming/Analysis. Next year I'm transferring to a different school to major in Applied Health Sciences and specialize in Kinesiology/Exercise Science.
Perhaps you just don't write well? It took me a LONG time to be able to write proficiently. From my experience, lower division classes emphasize structure and content more than style and prose.
As a Poli Sci TA I deal with crappy writing all the time. Sometimes I wonder how some of the students were ever admitted to the school. We at least generally emphasize content and understanding of the material over writing quality.
I've always thought if I became a professor that I would give a final with the prompt: "Write down what grade you deserve, and use as much space in the bluebook as you need to prove that your understanding of the material is deserving of that grade. You have 3 hours." But that's too asshole-ish and harder to grade.
There's a lot of reading and writing in English and the humanities but I found it way easier than Biochem. My favorite GE class was Modern American Lit.
All though we are few and far between, not everyone on NS Has a chill:pull ratio of 0, wears socks with sperrys, owns cargo shorts, and longboards to class.
