Rant rant rant
Ok, I just have to get this rant off my chest before it kills me.
I've just finished my essay for the 'Reading as a writer module.' I was arguing the literary merit of Tove Jansson, one of my favourite writers. Now, I believed that the point of Creative Writing was to make us better writers. But his particular module hasn't done that at all. All we've been talking about is 'literary merit.' Isn't that something that english literature students are supposed to look at?
Part of the assignment was a 'creative appendix,' a piece of writing inspired by our chosen writer. But still, there hasn't been anything taught about how to use our reading to help our writing.
The classes I've done best in were the ones that acutally taught me something. With this module it felt like 'ok here's what you have to do for the assessment. Go and do it.'
In script writing we had interactive workshops. In prose studies we talked about voice, style and other aspects of writing. In writing for young people we looked at different types of children's books. In reading as a writer, we looked at different ways to write an essay. This is apparently meant to show us how creative writing research works. But I thought this was about reading, not research.
The only useful part of this module was the presentation, since I gained some skills in speaking to an audience. But still, I haven't really learnt that much about reading. I've learnt a lot about Tove Jansson and what a great writer she is, but not how that can help me directly.
So the essay is all finished now. I know I should care but I just don't. I don't care about this essay. I don't care what mark I get. I don't care what my tutor thinks of me.
She gave me a pretty bad mark for my presentation slides. I showed them to her in class and from what I remember, she didn't say anything bad about them. I took that to mean they were fine so I left them as they were. But then she decided that my argument was too weak. Why didn't she tell me that before? Am I supposed to figure out every little thing myself?
So I guess even if I did care or if I worked harder, she'd still find some fault. I'm just going to forget about it and be glad that it's all over. It's times like these that I wonder why I'm convincing Joonas to take this course. It's easy to forget that for every bad teacher at this uni, there are lots of good ones too.
As for the election, I don't care who wins as long as it's not the BNP and that Britain stays with the EU. If Joonas can't move here then my life will be over.
I've just finished my essay for the 'Reading as a writer module.' I was arguing the literary merit of Tove Jansson, one of my favourite writers. Now, I believed that the point of Creative Writing was to make us better writers. But his particular module hasn't done that at all. All we've been talking about is 'literary merit.' Isn't that something that english literature students are supposed to look at?
Part of the assignment was a 'creative appendix,' a piece of writing inspired by our chosen writer. But still, there hasn't been anything taught about how to use our reading to help our writing.
The classes I've done best in were the ones that acutally taught me something. With this module it felt like 'ok here's what you have to do for the assessment. Go and do it.'
In script writing we had interactive workshops. In prose studies we talked about voice, style and other aspects of writing. In writing for young people we looked at different types of children's books. In reading as a writer, we looked at different ways to write an essay. This is apparently meant to show us how creative writing research works. But I thought this was about reading, not research.
The only useful part of this module was the presentation, since I gained some skills in speaking to an audience. But still, I haven't really learnt that much about reading. I've learnt a lot about Tove Jansson and what a great writer she is, but not how that can help me directly.
So the essay is all finished now. I know I should care but I just don't. I don't care about this essay. I don't care what mark I get. I don't care what my tutor thinks of me.
She gave me a pretty bad mark for my presentation slides. I showed them to her in class and from what I remember, she didn't say anything bad about them. I took that to mean they were fine so I left them as they were. But then she decided that my argument was too weak. Why didn't she tell me that before? Am I supposed to figure out every little thing myself?
So I guess even if I did care or if I worked harder, she'd still find some fault. I'm just going to forget about it and be glad that it's all over. It's times like these that I wonder why I'm convincing Joonas to take this course. It's easy to forget that for every bad teacher at this uni, there are lots of good ones too.
As for the election, I don't care who wins as long as it's not the BNP and that Britain stays with the EU. If Joonas can't move here then my life will be over.