By writerflaw - 10/03/2015 17:36 - United States - Juneau

Today, I lost a grade on an essay, because according to my teacher, I put much more detail into my analytical essay than I should have. FML
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annarcheer 19

Honestly you need to talk to someone about that because you don't want to end up with a crappy grade because your teachers an idiot.

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genericfmluser 17

I am saddened by the American school system.

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doctorhook86 24

Lots of butthurt highschoolers here who don't seem to realize that there IS such a thing as too much detail. I voted YDI because the student seems to think he knows better than the teacher, which is unlikely without more info.

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ShowMeKay 20

Exactly what I was thinking. Too much detail can mean unnecessary information that doesn't pertain to the analysis. But it's easier to blame the "dumb teacher" ..who has a degree in doing this lol. Not to say teachers can't be wrong wrong, just that this story seemed really one sided.

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born_hustla 26

Agreed. But don't you think there is better way to go about it than to deduct the grade?

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LyricaSilvan 29

Your teacher must not understand what the meaning of "analytical" is.

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ccscjones 7

It is possible to over-explain and become repetitive. But still, I know the struggle. FYL, OP.

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Gityerchicken 12

Your life sucked the moment you mentioned essay.

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born_hustla 26

That's ridiculous!! Something similar happened to me while I was junior high in Canada and I was awarded bonus points towards my next exam! Efforts and hard work should be rewarded and supported. This teacher is looking to fail an important generation!

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ohSNAPyall 26

Learning should also be supported. Take the lesson and apply it to your next essay.

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Ichiya 29

Why is one generation more important than another?

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Axel5238 29

Too much detail can ruin the flow of an essay especially if it goes off from the point from the essay. That's why they give you a topic and expect you to stick to it and why they give you format guidelines when your younger.

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stupidpplsuck 33

While I agree that does suck, it's important to know when you are going into too much detail. We as reader don't want to have every. single. detail told to us. It's more important to have the big ideas well defined and thought out, than it is to have a lot of partly thought or only vaguely important points. Think about when you're reading a book or article. You don't want to want to read five pages describing a house or meticulous history on wheat if the paper is about pancakes. It's gets boring. Or if you have to write reports for a job, it's good to get all the important details like how the meeting when, but they don't need to know what you had for breakfast. Do I think you should have gotten a whole grade off? No, but if you are old enough to be doing analytical papers, you're old enough to know how to prioritize information and know when to be more concise. But school is all about learning, so take this as an opportunity to learn.

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ohSNAPyall 26

Unless your teacher said, "Keep it under five pages," or however long, this is bullshit. But if Teach gave you a limit, it's for a reason. And that reason is that it's important to learn how to give a clear and structured argument with supporting evidence (as opposed to vomiting up all the facts you know about a subject and hoping that something resonates as an argument).

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