So tell me this
Since when does formality have a place in writing? Does every essay have to portray a standard five paragraph format? No, of course not. This would be absurd, robotic, and unemotional. So tell this to my mother, the same mother who received an education in standard writing in an Ohlone class. Tell her that my two paragraph essay for the first UC prompt is acceptable, and does not have to be in any specific, standard, and boring format.
"This essay looks terrible!" (she hasn't even read it yet)
"You got a 400 or a 500 on your SAT writing!"
"Uh......no mom, I actually did a lot better than that"
"I was talking about first SAT writing score!"
"That doesn't matter mom, I improved regardless"
"So? That just means that the bad score that you got reflects your actual ability!"
LOL
OKAY. So here I am writing an essay about how much I've improved from my shitty ass freshman year, and I hear this from my mom. Basically, improvement is never possible! It doesn't matter how you study or practice, your original score is WHO YOU REALLY ARE. So my 2.66 to a 3.8 was just a fluke. LOLOL WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT. She's getting all high flown and mighty since she took a college level class in english discourse, when I've already covered that material in my junior year. Writing ain't supposed to be RIGIDLY structured. Sure, having a backbone is perfectly fine, but to just have "attention grabber, background info, thesis statement, topic sentence, background, quote, explanation" etc for every single essay is POINTLESS. Why bother writing if that's the way you're going to write?
I find it to be ridiculous how I have to put up with this.
"This essay looks terrible!" (she hasn't even read it yet)
"You got a 400 or a 500 on your SAT writing!"
"Uh......no mom, I actually did a lot better than that"
"I was talking about first SAT writing score!"
"That doesn't matter mom, I improved regardless"
"So? That just means that the bad score that you got reflects your actual ability!"
LOL
OKAY. So here I am writing an essay about how much I've improved from my shitty ass freshman year, and I hear this from my mom. Basically, improvement is never possible! It doesn't matter how you study or practice, your original score is WHO YOU REALLY ARE. So my 2.66 to a 3.8 was just a fluke. LOLOL WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT. She's getting all high flown and mighty since she took a college level class in english discourse, when I've already covered that material in my junior year. Writing ain't supposed to be RIGIDLY structured. Sure, having a backbone is perfectly fine, but to just have "attention grabber, background info, thesis statement, topic sentence, background, quote, explanation" etc for every single essay is POINTLESS. Why bother writing if that's the way you're going to write?
I find it to be ridiculous how I have to put up with this.