The Glade 4.0

I really don't like my Humanities prof. He's hell-bent on teaching us how to write a "real academic paper." I can appreciate that. His instructions for the first paper were to answer 4 questions about Aristotle's theories of art in the book Poetics. I received a C+ on this paper. He said in class to e-mail him if we have problems. I had problems understanding his third question. I e-mailed him about it and he didn't respond to my e-mail until the night before it was due. I didn't have enough time to properly revise the answer to that question into its own paragraph like he wanted so my answer was interspersed throughout the paragraphs where I answered his second question. Admittedly, this is mostly my fault because I could have e-mailed sooner but it took him 3 days to respond and we only have a week to write it.

He also marked my paper down because it had an introduction paragraph. His instructions didn't state to not have an introduction paragraph. I've never heard of a writing-based class that states not to include intro paragraphs. My friend who is an English teacher, albeit at a public school, couldn't believe it either.

To top it all off, the only 5 papers we're writing this whole semester are due one week after the other. So by the time I saw my grade for the first and got the reasons why it was such, I was turning in the second paper and already made the same mistake with the intro paragraph.

He says he grades harshly at first but gives a final grade largely based on our improvement. He grades only on these 5 papers and the rest of the semester is going to be sitting around playing art critic. I do learn a lot from failure but it would be great if I was given enough time to absorb the lesson so that my next attempt doesn't repeat the same mistake. Freakin' community college...

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The Dude abides.

Grades don't matter.

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"The map is not the territory."

Well, the bright side is that you have the improvement part locked down, right?

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

I'd like to have his head locked down as I give him a Bulldog, Hacksaw Jim Duggan style!

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The Dude abides.

Oh, I feel your pain.
As my brother said when I went back to school:"You're leaving the real world, and going into one where the monkeys make the rules and the monkeys are in charge."

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko