Everyone- includuing myself- has had some difficulty with essays and thesis statements and the like. What's so troubling about writing a few well thought out sentences and proving those thoughts with evidence from the text to back it up? Well, for me it's the style of writing. I am a naturally sarcastic person who likes to ask a lot of rhetorical questions. There's already one in this paragraph. I don't take a scholarly, well-educated tone, because it isn't how I think. No, I'm not saying I'm stupid (different story for a different time), it just takes a lot of thinking and analyzing and time for me to actually transfer my jumbled thoughts into a coherent sentence. Time of which is not on my side. Sometimes, when I'm thinking really hard and looking off in the distance, a teacher will call me out for cheating. They figure since I spend so much time not writing, I'm looking off someone else's paper for ideas.
And then there's the thesis. I've had problems creating a good thesis ever since I was taught it when I was a junior. It's just hard to write something that could take you forever to think of and it still not be good enough. And the thesis needs to be pretty general, but specific at the same time because you want to be able to tie anything you say in your essay back to it. Dang.
In other news, the Dunbar Volleyball Team had a great season. I don't know anyone who's had a 30-8 record. 15-0 streak. Nice.
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