What's the Matter With You?

[walkertxkitty]

o/` "Yes, and the ocean parts when I walk through, and the clouds dissolve and the sky turns blue
I'm held in very great value by everyone I meet but you
'cause I've used my talents as I could, I've done some bad, I've done some good
I did a whole lot better than they thought I would so, c'mon and treat me like you should!" o/`

-- "Everybody Loves

Comments

[quoting_mungo]

Don't start your piece with "This is my essay/work for this week's LJ Idol topic, which is...." None of us, I would assume, are still in grade school.

I'm curious; does this apply only where the "main entry" starts with such, or do you also feel that way about things like the metatext I put at the top of my entries? I'm hesitant to do away with it for the sake of the non-Idol parts of my friendslist, and for this season, leaving the link back to the introduction seemed prudent (as I can't guarantee that any given Idol reader has read and remembered that entry). I'll gladly take suggestions for how to make that metatext less annoying, if it is, but I don't dare leave it out entirely, especially not now that I'm letting my characters do the talking.

Also, you probably already knew this, but I don't expect to be cut slack regarding anything but possibly idiomatic usage (which my bilingual brain tends to muddle up, though shurhaian is pretty good at catching it for me by now) just because I wasn't born speaking English. I'd rather be told I'm fucking up than have an error get more and more ingrained as I keep using a word wrong, or similar.

-Alexandra

[walkertxkitty]

Yours is done in a talk-show format, which is different. That type of thing counts to me as an original take on the subject. I was referring to the standard form we're taught in grade school over here in the US:

- statement of topic
- three paragraphs supporting the topic
- conclusion

[quoting_mungo]

Oh, that. I struggled an awful lot with that in US high school, especially since I believe there was some bull about how each paragraph should also be the sentence equivalent of that form. Essay writing isn't taught in quite the same way here so the other students' refresher on essay format was my first exposure.

I've thought on it, either way, and think I'll be inserting an anchor link before the entry illustration in my future entries and linking to that from the topic post. That should let Idol participants skip the boring repetitive disclaimer while my friendslist still gets a heads-up as to what I'm doing.

-Alexandra