Trying to Hold It Together

[yonkyu]

Erin, you did a good job of covering the topics of the prompt. Some of your sentence structures are awkward. Try reading your paper out loud to see if the sentences are formed in a way that you would speak. Sometimes this is a good test of the “readability” of our writing. This is a good way to find sentences that don’t “flow” the way that we want them to. Let me know if you have any questions about the comments in your paper. TD

This was my professor's comment about my recent paper I wrote that I spent 5 and a half hours on.

Grammar is going to be the death of me - it really is.

I try to stay strong and keep my emotions under control but its hard. Now I need to spend MORE time on my homework that I just don't have. It is so frustrating.

I'm never going to get it. I just want to cry and give up. I want to give up so much and I push myself so hard because I have a 4.0 GPA. I have NEVER achieved an A in any of my classes growing up. I am proud of these accomplishments I have made through my Master's Program. Now I know what I will be doing after I complete my Master's. I will be taking a GRAMMAR class. I don't know why I get overly emotional about it but I do. So now I have to be even more aware of what I write and HOW I write it. It's still a good grade, a 3.5 out of a 4.0 but its more about the grammar and comments about my writing. I know stuipd right!!

Someday I will get it!! I hope.

Comments

[majestic-duxk.livejournal.com]

it's a good comment though!

You addressed the prompt and they gave you feedback about what to work on. (true story: I'm trying to write something at the moment, and it always sounds stupid reading it outloud, but I did, because I am having a real problem with flow, and like your prof said. reading can help that).

I am happy to have a read over something and highlight things a teacher might pick up on? Sometimes it's not about spending more time on it, because (for me) the more stressed I get about something, the harder it is to do.

*hugs* you're doing awesome. A teacher's job is to help us improve, and you know what to look for in the next paper!

[angels3.livejournal.com]

Okay first off I think you're trying to be perfect and that's just not ever going to happen. It's great to want to get better, but overstressing about it is going to slow that improvement down.

There's also no shame in admitting you can't be good at everything. I hate grammar with a passion, spelling in particular. Math hates me as much as I hate it, there's nothing I can do about that except try to do better, but not putting so much pressure on yourself will help a lot.

[saltandburnboys.livejournal.com]

Awww, hon, that's not stupid at all; I'd have been just as upset as you. My advice - do some research. I learned so much about grammar and story writing just from reading up on some grammar sites, and I still use them now, if I don't know how to handle something. You don't need to take a class - it's all there on the Internet for you and you can do it now to improve your skills a little.

Although...saying that, your teacher doesn't have the best writing style herself. Holy simple sentences, Batman; does she know what a complex sentence is? Maybe she needs to take a writing course herself. O_o

And you should be proud of yourself, hon; we all have weaknesses. No one is good at everything. Just focus on all the things you are good at, and the things that you're doing well at right now. :-)

xx