When I got my annotated bibliography back, I was expecting no less than a check plus. All my sources were credible and researched, and I felt I had done well explaining how I could use them in my paper. However, when I was handed back a check minus, I immediately read the teacher remarks.
Apparently, although I have aced essentially every English class I have ever had, and have excellent SAT verbal scores, I still have trouble with "basic sentence structure" and "linking sentences that are 'weak'". This made me angry because I know I am a good writer. These two phrases make me sound like I am an idiot, or like I am in elementary school.
I was also criticized for my MLA formatting errors, which is understandable. However, I consulted the slides given to me in class and on blackboard, and the website given as a model, so I don't think it is neccessarily all my fault.
These comments on my paper annoy me, but not as much as the comments in class. The logic of saying that because we as college students are adults, and thus we are expected to automatically know how to write an annotated bibliography is similar to saying that once you move to Aspen, you must automatically know how to bomb down the double black diamonds. I personally have never written an annotated bibliography before, and felt I did a pretty good job.
So in conclusion, I was not happy with the comments on my annotated bibliography. I put in effort to the project, I just didn't use correct format when citing sources. I spent the time doing the work, I was just unfamiliar with the assigment. So before you attack my first attempt at an assignment 'that all adults should know how to do', tell those new neighbors in Aspen to hit the slopes.
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He shows the passion he has for his work in this blog, and the anger he felt when receiving a bad grade on something he thought he did well on. The idea of moving to aspen and automatically being able to ski well being the same as going to college and automatically being able to write a bibliography was interesting. He is very clear in his writing, and the grammar is strong. Everything is linked together, and organized into well organized paragraphs. Some of the sentences are somewhat repetative, with many starting with the same word. Altering some of the sentence structure is the major change that could be made.
Adam, this entry made me laugh. The point of the annotated bibliography is that we spent THREE weeks on it in class. And it was not that many of the bibliographies were "wrong" it was that they didn't show effort. There is a difference. This IS college and people have to be held accountable.
Your metaphor was really fantastic and if you put as much passion into the rest of your work as you put into this, you would be an A+ student hands down.
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