Little Rant... about essay writing

[Kevin McHugh]

I just don't understand how I am going to need MLA a lot going into a STEM field. Maybe some of you can inspire me to see the light in this situation. I really hate this class and my teacher and finding positivity is quite tough.

It's not the style guide so much as learning how to use them. In my senior year we had to take a 2 ch course called Professional Skills. We had to learn to use Bielsteins, make presentations, and write a research paper worthy of publication. I forget what style guide we used, but it had to be exact. Also in graduate school, we had to take a communications workshop. In that, we had to write a paper worthy of publication. Turabian was the style guide. The point is, quit expecting things handed to you, and do the assignment as assigned.

 

[Kevin McHugh]

S. This is my worst class partially because I haven't been exposed to a teacher like my current one before and was unprepared for her lack of experience..

Perhaps she's not the one lacking experience.

 

[symbolipoint]

Almost a day and a half ago, the last time original poster gave this last reply:

Seeing that many of you don't really know what MLA formatting is shows how useful the material I'm learning really is.

And the material is the issue for the students, because it isn't really covered in class and only as a reading assignment for this particular semester. Most of the students in my class have a similar problem. I'm not the type of student to really complain about working hard, I'm just upset I have a teacher that doesn't know how to be helpful. I love working hard and feeling accomplished. I have a good GPA and I am getting good grades at the moment and I'm focused. This is my worst class partially because I haven't been exposed to a teacher like my current one before and was unprepared for her lack of experience.

I know my posts haven't been clear and might have sounded contradicting but I was ranting.

Enough time passed that you could clearly identify the actual problem. Is the problem with understanding the M.L.A. style guide, or in which way your teacher/professor wants conformance to it such as which choices to make for how to conform to in the guide? Or is the problem one of conceptual understanding of your course's topics? Can you precisely summarize the complaints that your class as a group have?

 

[Psinter]

Just kill this thread.

I think this thread should be closed for OP's sake. I can see what most of the repliers are doing (or did) and I can see where they are coming. It is not good and I do not see it with good eyes. If I were OP, I would let this thread fall into oblivion (that is, not reply anymore). A few have given answers that are clear which would mark this in many other places as answered. Like: "You made a rant (despite the forum rules), you made a question, and besides the few that mocked you, another few gave you serious answers. I'm closing this to avoid attracting more mockery and low quality approaches to answering your question."

 

[symbolipoint]

Just kill this thread.

I think this thread should be closed for OP's sake. I can see what most of the repliers are doing (or did) and I can see where they are coming. It is not good and I do not see it with good eyes. If I were OP, I would let this thread fall into oblivion (that is, not reply anymore). A few have given answers that are clear which would mark this in many other places as answered. Like: "You made a rant (despite the forum rules), you made a question, and besides the few that mocked you, another few gave you serious answers. I'm closing this to avoid attracting more mockery and low quality approaches to answering your question."

I am in favor of this too. O.P. just must deal with current course difficulty as best can, and try to do better, like maybe if he needs to repeat the course, or too, if takes it from another professor - either way, later he may know more than he does at present.

 

[berkeman]

The OP hasn't replied in a couple of days, despite having read the thread responses, so I'll go ahead and close the thread for now. I think for the most part the responses have been good, and hopefully the OP takes them to heart.