Friday, June 3, 2011
Course Reflection
The essay is not, in any conventional sense, fun. I recall endless instances where people extolled their choler over the rigid nuances of writing an essay. For one, many people just don't give a flying duck about the subject matter. Why? The reasons vary. Two, essays are sometime counter intuitive if you want to make people think deeply on a subject. Why? Because the subjects are nearly always convoluted and making claims will be revealed as erroneous. Three, essays are fraught with grammatical errors. Some people are grammar nerds (Grammar Police) and others are not. The vast majority of college students are not. And a lot of the grammatical structures people adhere by are, by and large, arbitrary. Four, essays are awfully, awfully egotistical. Think about it. It's all one protracted rant that makes a personality broad and vague. You are constantly utilizing your brain to sound like a prick. Your word choice habitually displays who you are as a person. Is meekness and recalcitrant behavior encouraged? Digressions are organic in human reasoning but it is suppressed in essays. Five, you have to make an essay clear, creative, interesting, factual, subjective, objective...essentially you have to pump qualities that are contradictory. plus, you have to make an effort to write. And that's a drag. Plus, you have to address the questions directly, which are seldom compltely concise. I cared for none of the assignments, really. Blogger was okay. This class was congenial.
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