The reason writing is so hard in school is that kids are being made to write when they have nothing to say. They're writing about things they don't care about. [...] They're writing to an "audience" who isn't voluntarily reading.https://twitter.com/diviacaroline/status/1241159602562936832 …
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Replying to @diviacaroline
me in school: god i hate writing, i can never write anything, this sucks me after leaving english class behind: wow suddenly i can write dozens of pages about stuff??? and its fun??????
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Replying to @imhinesmi @diviacaroline
ngl the 5 paragraph essay format crippled my ability to write things nobody thinks like that, and if you try to write one it will ruin your thoughts on the subject its not even that easy to understand compared to just telling people to throw their thoughts onto a page
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Replying to @imhinesmi @diviacaroline
the ratio of essays i had to write in school to the number of decent essays i was exposed to in school was rather high i didnt actually see any really good essays until i read the lw sequences no wonder i didnt know how to write them, i didnt know what i was supposed to write
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Replying to @imhinesmi @diviacaroline
"ask a question, then record the process of trying to answer it" will almost always make a much interesting and more convincing essay than anything ever written for an english teacher
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Replying to @imhinesmi @diviacaroline
I have a similar issue with literary analysis. I was exposed to way too much critical drama theory actually connection to Aristotle and something something capitalism style stuff in school. I only learned basic things like character development from YouTube movie reviews lol
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i will forever maintain that http://tvtropes.org is a better creative writing teacher than 99% of english professors
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