English is the Worst

Today in Writing 150 Madame discussed how her pet peeve is expectation in writing form. She spent the first ten minutes describing the well-known "five paragraph essay". While describing it she talked about all the reasons that demanding a certain structure is bad and wrong. From what I understand, her main frustration is that one is expected to write a paper with a broad general intro, three points of focused discussion, and a conclusion that brings all of the points to one solid idea.

Understandably this drives her mad. I mean, who in his/her right mind would want to read a logical, well-formatted, practiced style of writing?

"Don't worry about this. Just say what you want to say. I'm not going to make you do anything. The writing that you do that is un-form-like is likely to be your best work. Just make sure it's exactly the style that I would have written it in, and has all the points of the 'A' essay as prescribed by MLA." -Madame

Okay, so I may have gone freestyle on that last sentence. But for crying out loud. She drives me crazy. She thinks she's so "free-spirited" because she doesn't write her introduction first.

She has her own idea of exactly what each type of paper should look like. Just because it's not the structure that is seen in other English classes, she acts as though she is so overly "out of the box". She may be out of one box. But she's gladly hopped into a new box. And now she's trying to "cookie-cut" us into her shape. Even if she doesn't realize it. (She doesn't).

Oh my goodness now she's freaking bringing in Thoreau. "Non-conformity is the only way to become your own..."

Shoot me now.


-Sir Jacob van Heemskerck Duker DeBaltzo Esquire

RANT COMPLETE



PS: ~In a snarky voice~ "Oh, my teacher said this is the way that I need to do this, so this is the way I'm going to do it... You can't just do everything your expected to do." -Madame

Oh, dear... You have no idea of the irony or your statements.

RANT ACTUALLY COMPLETE