And since I'm taking AP English, I can hopefully get college credit for English so I won't ever have to take it again/take it as much.
Hoo yeah!
You know, AP English isn't actually all that hard. Oh sure, the standards are high, but the workload isn't that bad.
Although I'm kind of sick of practice tests. We've had three multiple choice and a writing in the last two weeks alone.
I've been pronouncing "archives" phonetically for the past 7 years and I'm confused when people correct me. And apparently ASCII is not pronounced "A-S-C-I-I" but rather "Ass-key".
Funny, I've always pronounced it "ass-cuzy". Dunno why.
Amaster42 wrote:Hoo yeah!
You know, AP English isn't actually all that hard. Oh sure, the standards are high, but the workload isn't that bad.
Although I'm kind of sick of practice tests. We've had three multiple choice and a writing in the last two weeks alone.
English Grammer or Lit? I took the Lit one years ago, and I don't remeber any mutiple choice sections. Just three essays they expected you to BS about for several pages.
Composition actually. How to write an essay, how to effectively use Rhetoric, how to make an argument, provide backing and justification, and of course how to analyze all these things in someone else's essay.
Lit is next year.
Yeah, but I don't like getting a 97% on a multiple choice quiz over a reading and getting only five (or so) of the eight (or so) questions right.
We go by the nine point essay rubric, and the grading scale for essays are
9: 100%
8: 95%
7: 90%
6: 85%
...all the way to a 65% from getting a score of a 1 on an essay. This....sucks.
Damn, I got a 6 on today's essay because even though my analysis of the authors rhetoric was spot on and my writing flowed well, had flair, and was well set up, I didn't discuss the authors point until near the end.
The prompt asked me to analyze how he got his point across, and I did. I just didn't mention the point until the end. But I spent the entire essay explaining how he did it.
Taking the concurrent classes in high school can really help. I'm getting my History out of the way and Government and Economics and English next year. At least I think all those will be out of the way. I just would rather avoid all the basics as much as I can that I don't really need when I want to be either an Illustrator, maybe Graphic Designer, and Writer. Graphic Designer was decided for a short time, but it's totally up in the air again, and I have less than a year to decide what the heck I really want to do and what school to do it at.
Ah, procrastination. I know it well.
Okay, phattonez, I just looked at the syllabus for your Philosophy 22W class... and... wtf?... it has substantially less writing than the PS 10 course I took. Just... wow -_-. I wish I had gotten writing II credit for that, ugh.
I wrote the shortest essay the last time (argument), but I was the only person to get a 9. 😛
What's better than procrastination?
Icey wrote:Okay, phattonez, I just looked at the syllabus for your Philosophy 22W class... and... wtf?... it has substantially less writing than the PS 10 course I took. Just... wow -_-. I wish I had gotten writing II credit for that, ugh.
Yeah, I thought that a Writing II class would actually have a lot of writing. I only have to do 10 homework assignments that are a page long, and then 3 papers throughout the quarter, and they range from 4-7 pages each. It's really simple. I guess it's Writing II because all we do is explain the points of philosophers (sometimes with really complex ideas) and there is very little creative work.
phattonez wrote:I only have to do 10 homework assignments that are a page long, and then 3 papers throughout the quarter, and they range from 4-7 pages each. It's really simple.
That sounds like a lot to me. Well, I could deal with the 10 single page homework assignments, but I don't know about the three additional papers. Wouldn't you much rather take a course in which you create a video game?
Speaking of writing, I ran into over 15 cases of an abused semicolon today while editing a newspaper I help with.
The sad thing is that I always end up correcting the editor's edits, because she is terrible at grammar and sentence structure. She took an editorial I wrote, (which I already feel dirty for writing, though I did try to make it as investigative as possible) and edited it into a gramatically atrocious waste of print.
Which I then spent an hour fixing. But I'm not the editor in chief, so she gets the final say of the edits.
Sad. So very, very sad.
Awesome. Now journalists not only don't know anything about the topic they're writing on, they also don't know how to write?
What exactly do they learn?
The semicolon is not difficult to use; however, not many people use it. They should combine the colon and the semicolon, since both have relatively similar uses.
I don't want a semicolon stomping all over my colon. Colons are rarely used with me, I have semi-colons all the time. My writing wouldn't do well with the two of them being the same.
Pineconn wrote:What's better than procrastination?
Oh, I really learned my lesson about procrastination. I stayed up so late doing homework, I think I almost fell asleep in class, when I was interested in what the teacher was talking about!
Yeah, for semi-colons and colons I just use whatever one "feels right".
Wow, Pineconn, you got a 9? You mus be a really good essayist.
Pineconn wrote:The semicolon is not difficult to use; however, not many people use it. They should combine the colon and the semicolon, since both have relatively similar uses.
No they don't.
Semicolon is used to join independent clauses in compound sentences, to further separate items in a series or to further clarify two long and complicated clauses that already have a conjunction (but, and...) if commas would just be too confusing.
Colons are used to denote the beginning of lists, explanations, in writing time, in business letters (there's a few more that aren't coming to mind)
But they definitely could. The MLA (or whoever) could easily convert the semicolon into a colon. If so, the following sentence would look fine: "The semicolon is not difficult to use: however, not many people use it," though it is currently incorrect.
Who was it...... I think it was Henry David Thoreau who always mixed up semicolons and colons. (If not, it was my good friend Tommy Paine.)
russadwan wrote:Oh, I really learned my lesson about procrastination. I stayed up so late doing homework, I think I almost fell asleep in class, when I was interested in what the teacher was talking about!
Yeah, but the days you are not working ahead on a project or paper converts to more free time. This streamline of free time is unbalanced and eventually severed if you constantly work on a project for a little bit of time each day. Thus, you are less happy.
Just like right now. In the remaining hour of free time I could be doing Government section reviews, but instead I'm going to try to beat the Boost Guardian of Metroid Prime 2 on hard mode. Which is very difficult, by the way.
Amaster42 wrote:Wow, Pineconn, you got a 9? You mus be a really good essayist.
Nah, I'm just a good persuasive writer. I'm terrible when it comes to rhetoric-analysis or synthesis writing.
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Nah, I'm just a good persuasive writer. I'm terrible when it comes to rhetoric-analysis or synthesis writing.[/QUOTE]
I'm the opposite. I hate trying to convince people of things. I figure if they haven't already come to their senses, I shouldn't be wasting my time.
I don't mind my editor fixing my screwups because I basically suck at punctuation. I just wish he would ask before changing my titles and adding his own two cents to my articles...heck if it weren't for bad writers..then we wouldn't need editors😊
Pineconn wrote:Just like right now. In the remaining hour of free time I could be doing Government section reviews, but instead I'm going to try to beat the Boost Guardian of Metroid Prime 2 on hard mode. Which is very difficult, by the way.
ZOMG, I actually beat it!! Plus 400 Pineconn Dollars for everybody!
That was the most intense mini-boss scene I've ever played. Much more intense than any Twilight Princess boss. I actually felt my heart slamming against my ribcage at the end.
Shyvus wrote:I'm the opposite. I hate trying to convince people of things. I figure if they haven't already come to their senses, I shouldn't be wasting my time.
Then how about writing arguments so that someone else can come along and prove you wrong? That's always fun.
I always hate persuasive writing because I feel that if I could just talk to the person reading my essay, I could address their specific concerns more effectively, instead of vauge generalizations for an entire audience.
I liek the boost guardian. Hard tho, but I got around to it. And btw;
I think AGN users is a really cool guy. Eh posts on forum and doesn't afraid of anything.
sorry for bad inglish. I could not geet 9 on my inglis paper...
You're joking now too right?
Hey....wasn't that fad supposedly on 4chan?
What is a 4chan fad doing on AGN? 0_o
What's that fad?
4chan fads/memes are all over the internet. Why wouldn't they come to AGN?
...and I thought we were safe here....
...all we need now is an epic fail guy...
(and BTW...I don't go on 4CHAN. It's good friend of mine who does. ...and whenever I visit him, he shows me all the random stuff he's saved from that site.)