I feel it appropriate to write my free response about papers since that's what I'm still doing at this moment and will continue doing until it's time to turn the paper in tomorrow. You know what my problem is with papers? I hate my subjects. Even if I like my subject at the beginning, I manage to, in my paper, turn it into this trite, stupid argument that no longer makes any sense for why anyone would want to write about this subject in the first place. And it's really annoying. I don't think my enthymeme even holds up for anyone save a very very very specific audience, and then they aren't really a neutral audience, they're an audience in denial of being the recipients of the lecture. I just hope I don't fail the paper. My rewrite will probably be on a different subject. This is actually the 2.5th paper I've written. I wrote the rough of another one and the outline of yet another subject. I just can't find what I'm looking for, and I'm not even interested in the arguments...I'd like to talk about asians, but there isn't much to persuade out there about them, except that maybe they aren't as smart as people think they are, which isn't much of a standpoint to...well, stand by.
Maybe it stems from the fact that I'm not an interesting person, or that I can't actually argue in real life. I don't think I've ever won an argument that wasn't superficial. I blame my lack of ability to be persuasive on my genes! It's not my fault that I was made this way! Enthymemes can't fix what's wrong with the head! I in fact hate arguments. This class goes against the very core of my being. I should be offended, dangit.
...or maybe I should have taken technical writing, which would have been a lot more boring but would have had enough rules that even a monkey could do it. Well, a monkey well-versed in English and it's technicalities, I suppose.
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