I swear, my damn Civics teacher will find any little thing to mark on my paper. Not to brag, but I have the highest GPA of the damn freshman class and what I believe to be great writing skills compared to my classmates but it's always something. I even show some of my papers to my Composition teacher and she's like "Wtf?" Not literally, but you know what I mean. I know I kind of sound like a conceited asshole but she's such a bitch. /rant

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If you really are such a great as you say, are you sure she isn't trying to push your potential further? If she just dismissed every small mistake you could possibly have and only marked big glaring problems you would more then likely lose the will to improve and just think you were perfect where you were. Criticism is the mother of improvement and you can't improve where you don't think there is a problem. I mean come on, just look at all the modern writers who clearly don't receive enough criticism enough to improve and just think their literary abortions are worth anything (twilight saga anyone?).

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't think I'm perfect, not even close. When she grades my papers it's not grammatical errors she corrects, but just vague comments like "more detail" or "elaborate." Whenever I do that on my next draft, she says I "didn't prove my point" or something along those lines. If she was trying to push me to my full potential she would probably try and give me helpful advice. When I need help on papers, I go after school to see my Comp. teacher and she gives me great feedback and detailed criticism. I go to see my Civics teacher and nothing. "Read what I wrote on your paper" is what she says. I honestly don't know what her problem is.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"but just vague comments like "more detail" or "elaborate." Whenever I do that on my next draft, she says I "didn't prove my point" or something along those lines." Those aren't vague marks at all. They're pretty exact actually, and they mean what they say. She wants to you to elaborate, or put more detail into the paper. Also, that the evidence in your paper didn't prove your point.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But she doesn't specify what I need to elaborate on. Seeing as we usually have to write long papers, there are many ideas I may have stated so just saying "add more detail" isn't going to help. I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I need more extensive criticism than what she gives me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Where she doesn't even put an arrow pointing to where her mark referenced to? That's just lazy grading.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Nope. At the top of the paper, in capital letters, she'll write some of the things I mentioned above.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Lazy grading right there

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Are you kidding? Have you seen how much critism the Twilight Saga gets?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well of COURSE! but the fact that is still EXISTS is proof enough that it didn't receive enough in the first place.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"i have the highest gpa of the damn freshman class!" made me laugh. sorry, junior reflex to laugh at freshman, even though you're probably referencing college.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, I'm not talking about college. Obviously, I'm not going to be as smart as upperclassmen so I just referenced my grade.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oftentimes teachers have a certain way they think a paper should be. Once you find that groove it's pretty easy to get an A.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No writer is perfect, so I agree. A lot of times composition flow is a matter of opinion almost, and can't be helped. At the least her marks help discover problems and flaws and help you improve, if you're interested in improving that is.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah because most of those writers aren't good.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

wow. how ignorant can you be? http://www.makeliterature.com/blog/famous-contemporary-authors-list

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I've read some Camus and Salinger and I didn't like either of them. At all. I've always taken honors English classes and I'm in AP Lit right now, so I'm not just stupid. I just really don't like them.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I just really don't like you

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And I'm 100% okay with that. Although, I think you are jumping to conclusions a lot faster than I did considering you have only read 5 sentences from me, whereas I read whole novels from Camus and Salinger. But, whatever floats your boat!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Intelligence floats my boat, particularly the intelligence of great authors, rather than the ignorance of anonymous commenters

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Whoa there. I wasn't looking for an argument.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

i have no idea who those are but YYA to sound make myself sound smart!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The girl who stopped the world for five minutes wouldn't get an A in my schools marking schedule because she reads some of the speech and doesn't have it all memorised.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If William Golding wrote my essay on symbolism in Lord of the Flies, I'd still get it wrong.

by Anonymous 12 years ago