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 No.12873>>12877 >>12897 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

>taking english comp class

>professor wants every paper in the third person according to a extremely specific template

>the thesis, which is one sentence, has a strict 10 bullet point template that you have to follow

>artistic license and creativity are thrown out the fucking window

>prof tells me to resubmit my essay when I deviate at all from the framework

>get 20 points deducted

Why is literary education so retarded? They treat it like it's a objective thing, when really it's an art form, especially for informative and argumentative writing.

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 No.12877

>>12873 (OP)

why would you take composition classes in the first place?

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 No.12882

>fell for the college meme

>he thinks colleges are there to make kids smarter

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 No.12897

>>12873 (OP)

Not that I agree with the professor's choice, but creativity is generated more by restrictions than the converse. That's why

Metered verse>>>>>>>>>>>>>dog shit>>>>>>>>>>>>>>free verse

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 No.12938>>12939

Well, there are a few reasons. One is that people are falling more and more out of love with reading and writing; another is that the university system doesn't give a fuck about writers. You don't need a degree to become a successful author (although business classes might help) and you certainly don't need to go to a prestigious university.

Universities are there to train people in careers that need advanced skills, like the STEM and medical fields. Truth be told, it's just not productive to be spending thousands of dollars to learn how to write. So why is the university taking your money? Because there are billions (BILLIONS) of people out there who want to become financially successful artists, and the university is more than happy to pocket those peoples' money to pay for the students who will actually accomplish something in STEM. Or sports, I guess.

So most of the writing classes you're going to see will not be geared toward writing as an art form but instead toward the composition of business correspondence or some shit. If you think this is bad, just wait until they start talking to you about PowerPoint; you'll want to chew your leg off.

The other thing is that the professor might not even be very good at English comp. When I was in uni, I saw quite a few professors who were well out of their depth on certain subjects, just because the university needed somebody to fill in the slot. Universities need English composition classes, but nobody (and I mean nobody) wants to teach those classes. You might be surprised what kind of jobs people can get that they are in no way qualified for.

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 No.12939

>>12938

now that you mention it, i don't think that here in italy there are no composition classes. not at an universitary level.

those business correspondence classes and power point are things kept for vocational schools.which here are high schools.

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