Me need ranty
Dear Teacher:
I apologize if this is not a high quality outline. I do not like outlines. I have never liked outlines. I will grudgingly do outlines when required for academic purposes, and I will grudgingly but voluntarily complete an outline for a work over fifteen or twenty pages in length. However, for a six to eight page analysis paper for which I am not even allowed to do outside research, doing an outline seems rather silly. As someone who learned the outline format in third grade, I find it frustrating that we are still handing in outlines in college level courses. I am glad you are concerned about the quality of my work. But still (oh dear, I began a sentence with a conjunction), this is a college level course, and if I manage to fail a paper because I did not write an outline and my organization is severely impacted by it, I deserve to fail. In fact, I should go back to my high school and demand my money back because it was obviously not spent on my education. Anyway, I am going to be passing in a rough draft as well. For that matter, I don’t entirely understand why this is being written in a formal paper style anyway. It is an analysis, it could be written as a list. It could be a very short, neat list. On the other hand, I’m sure that I could come up with at least twelve pages of formal writing on one scene if I put my mind to it. It might even be interesting to read. But that would waste my time, and your time. So why is it we are drawing everything out for no reason? Can we please, for the love of God, move on? This class is supposed to teach me how to see, how to look at movies, like a professional. It is not supposed to teach me how to express myself. I just took Composition. It sucked. They made me do bullshit too. I wish that people would believe me when I said that I was a good writer and I understood the process. I would even give work examples. But no one ever believes me, or thinks there needs to be a level playing field, but it all just adds up to more bullshit in the end. Can I please spend my time learning something instead of worrying how my grammar is going to affect my grade? Can we please, please, move on?
Thank you, Teacher, I really needed to get that off my chest.
Here's my outline now,
Elf.
I apologize if this is not a high quality outline. I do not like outlines. I have never liked outlines. I will grudgingly do outlines when required for academic purposes, and I will grudgingly but voluntarily complete an outline for a work over fifteen or twenty pages in length. However, for a six to eight page analysis paper for which I am not even allowed to do outside research, doing an outline seems rather silly. As someone who learned the outline format in third grade, I find it frustrating that we are still handing in outlines in college level courses. I am glad you are concerned about the quality of my work. But still (oh dear, I began a sentence with a conjunction), this is a college level course, and if I manage to fail a paper because I did not write an outline and my organization is severely impacted by it, I deserve to fail. In fact, I should go back to my high school and demand my money back because it was obviously not spent on my education. Anyway, I am going to be passing in a rough draft as well. For that matter, I don’t entirely understand why this is being written in a formal paper style anyway. It is an analysis, it could be written as a list. It could be a very short, neat list. On the other hand, I’m sure that I could come up with at least twelve pages of formal writing on one scene if I put my mind to it. It might even be interesting to read. But that would waste my time, and your time. So why is it we are drawing everything out for no reason? Can we please, for the love of God, move on? This class is supposed to teach me how to see, how to look at movies, like a professional. It is not supposed to teach me how to express myself. I just took Composition. It sucked. They made me do bullshit too. I wish that people would believe me when I said that I was a good writer and I understood the process. I would even give work examples. But no one ever believes me, or thinks there needs to be a level playing field, but it all just adds up to more bullshit in the end. Can I please spend my time learning something instead of worrying how my grammar is going to affect my grade? Can we please, please, move on?
Thank you, Teacher, I really needed to get that off my chest.
Here's my outline now,
Elf.