Kafka
Franz Kafka- German Language Jewish Czech writer known for "Metamorphosis","The Trial", "The Castle"
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Dorothy Allison
Known for writing "Bastard Out of Carolina", Short story collection "Trash", and "Two or Three Things I know for Sure"
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Annie Dillard
wrote "Pilgram at Tinker Creek","An American Childhood", and "The Writing Life"
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after my son was born, I wrote the words I think I need help in my journal. I was scared I might hurt him. I didn’t know there was a name for what I was feeling, that postpartum depression was a Thing
Last semester in English, we read and annotated an essay on postpartum depression by Micaela Walley.
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“high school teachers have to make a choice between teaching writing methods that are rewarded by SAT essay-readers—thereby sending worse writers out into the world—or training pupils to write well generally, at the risk of parent complaints.”
It seems we are taught to write to uphold a standard, not to really engage the reader.
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The word Boring comes up often. So does Excruciating and Waste of time. Sometimes they only have sounds: UHG. GAH. GGRRR. But the one that really got me, that made me want to light shit on fire and also maybe weep, was a couple of months ago, when the new semester started, a student of mine said, “Essays are terrifying.”
Definitely feel this way about essays being I'm a math major. That the way essays are taught makes it terrifying and frustrating.
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I had a teacher who would stand in front of the classroom banging a ruler on the table and the thirty of us, in unison, would recite vocabulary words
The good ole days
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I LOVE essays! I love writing them and reading them and learning from them and teaching from them and Dear American Education System!
Wish I felt that way about writing essays.
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Two minutes in which to judge one’s complexity of thought, substantiality of development, and facility with language, a judgment which may very well determine whether or not somebody can even go to college, let alone which college, or the potential financial aid they might receive.
Seems unrealistic on their part. Do they possibly not even care what you write?
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however, the assumption that there’s only one way to do so is increasingly problematic
I've always asked the question "Is English class or writing essays the way we are taught, really making us better writers?"
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