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Originally Posted by Azar
I don't hate to do them either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeldy
I do good on essays but I wouldn't say I'm the best in my classes even though I have been complimented on a lot.
Lately ive been getting out of the habit of waiting till the last second to do them but I still do that for book reports.
I can't remember what the book report was about but I do remember I had to re-do it a lot and it sucked.:mad:
Essays...Essays...Essays...
I don't hate em, and i don't love em, but History essays are the worst!
I get good marks, but I'm just so lazy to do it-I leave it until the last day/last night and finally complete it in a rush job.
You see it's only history essays which bugger me, and my history teacher is very old fashion ( if ya get what i mean)
I hate and also do well on them.
I hate them and do decent on them, usually an A or a B.
I see no purpose in them, however. They're the most bland, boring and pointless form of writing and there is seemingly no way to escape them as you go higher in your education.
I don't mind essays in and of themselves, but I definitely don't like research papers. Which is ironic since I'm a Political Science/History double-major, and those two are very research-heavy departments. I had two ~15-page research papers last semester. I'm going to have two more to do this semester. History papers especially require massive numbers of citations. And they're all footnoted, so while it looks cool, it's more of a pain in the ass than easy parenthetical citations.
I'm pretty good at essays.
The worst essay I ever had was a 5-6 page paper on Aristotle's theory of government. It was only five pages, but required a ton of research and was a pain in the ass. My 10+ page essays have all been wide-open subjects so I got to write about something I'm actually interested in, so they haven't been bad.
Ya' gotta hate them, no?
Essays are fun for me when I'm interested and passionate about the topic...otherwise, no.
Or are you one of those people who actually do GOOD in them? Yes. Most of the time. Especially last year when my lowest essay grade was an A.
Do you leave them until the very last day?
Procrastination is key to my success, because pressure forces me to do something I otherwise have no interest in doing. xD
What was the worst essay you ever had?
My essay on global warming during the 8th grade. I got a C+ and it was pretty bad. I basically didn't b.s. enough on it and had no interest in talking about something that's going to happen in approximately 100 years anyway.
I would only like them if I got to choose what to write about.
Mhm, and not about a book. I hate the fact that I now have to FIND QUOTES to back my statements.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sergeant Hartman
and can someone change the thread title to 'Essays' plz? :(
Ya' gotta hate them, no?
I believe I've seen the back of them
Or are you one of those people who actually do GOOD in them?
I've done several in my time and strangely enough they've been good when I needed them to be good (i.e. in the exam hall)
Do you leave them until the very last day?
Never, two or three days at most
What was the worst essay you ever had?
The ones in the exam about boring subjects such as "you are trying to write an informative passage to try and get people to donate money for a certain good cause". Also a couple of the questions in my economics GCE were pretty draining
Actually Catcher in the Rye is one of the few books I've read and I would have loved to have done an essay on it as opposed to rot that was the Withered Arm. Back then I didn't even wanna touch the book because I thought it was diseased or something
I'm doing one right now. Five pages on Music Composition.
I like them, they are fun to write (when a bibliography isn't required), and I like to read them, because I come away with more info.
I do well, especially when I procrastinate. I haven't had a bad essay. But my best was a 10 page commentary on capital punishment.
Once I had to make an Essay over an Essay :cry:
To conclude, give your overall opinion of the book. State whether you liked it or not (use quotes).Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeldy
"It was crap"
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i never minded writing essays in school. and when on an exam i had the choice to write essay answers, i chose the essay.
since then i write stories, essays are too dry and confined most of the time, so i use stories as a platform for my ideas.
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Originally Posted by Azar