i suck at english and idk how to improve (1 Viewer)

[lacedmalice]

pretty much ive never done well on any essay like ever. i really want to try to do well in this subject. it already sucks enough that we're FORCED to do a subject (which i dont enjoy and dont need for my preferred uni courses but it still counts so YIPEE!!!!!) for the hsc (i genuinely dont think its necessary for english to be compulsory after year 10 like come on bro its really dragging it) we can have a debate if u disagree im open to that.

but thats not what this post is about. i dont understand how to come up with stuff for essays. like when im reading a good essay from someone else im like ohhh yeah that makes sense but i would NEVER be able to come up with something even slightly similar to that level of sophisticated-ness and detail. i just dont get it. i need some advice pls like im actually gonna start crashing out cuz everyone else seems to get it but i dont like what are u even. how do you even study for english. what is english even about bro

 

[Study to success]

this is the most real post ever

 

[yesaah123]

ts so real bruh its like a subject u want to improve in but u just cant for some reason no matter what u do or u js dont know how to do it i literally had this exact thought like tday crazy

 

[Study to success]

Do u guys want to get into a debate about this cause idk if I'm bothered

 

[lacedmalice]

ts so real bruh its like a subject u want to improve in but u just cant for some reason no matter what u do or u js dont know how to do it i literally had this exact thought like tday crazy

ong bro like im acc trying but i cant even get one proper essay

 

[lacedmalice]

Do u guys want to get into a debate about this cause idk if I'm bothered

are u for or against english being a compulsory subject for the hsc

 

[its_ace21]

are u for or against english being a compulsory subject for the hsc

against next topic

 

[Study to success]

are u for or against english being a compulsory subject for the hsc

Against of course. I’m literally the leader of the anti hsc English party (unofficial) u can join it

 

[Study to success]

I mean I guess English is kinda important but please don’t make it count towards our atar. I don’t mind doing it as long as I can just flunk it

 

[Study to success]

And honestly if they made the course more enjoyable and less about over analysing everything and analysing literature it would be so much better and so much easier. I’m not bothered to yap to much cause I did way to much of that today

 

[Average Boreduser]

pretty much ive never done well on any essay like ever. i really want to try to do well in this subject. it already sucks enough that we're FORCED to do a subject (which i dont enjoy and dont need for my preferred uni courses but it still counts so YIPEE!!!!!) for the hsc (i genuinely dont think its necessary for english to be compulsory after year 10 like come on bro its really dragging it) we can have a debate if u disagree im open to that.

but thats not what this post is about. i dont understand how to come up with stuff for essays. like when im reading a good essay from someone else im like ohhh yeah that makes sense but i would NEVER be able to come up with something even slightly similar to that level of sophisticated-ness and detail. i just dont get it. i need some advice pls like im actually gonna start crashing out cuz everyone else seems to get it but i dont like what are u even. how do you even study for english. what is english even about bro

practice doing short answers

 

[alphxreturns]

And honestly if they made the course more enjoyable and less about over analysing everything and analysing literature it would be so much better and so much easier. I’m not bothered to yap to much cause I did way to much of that today

wait til you do poetry again in mod B. ARHGHHH. what if TS Eliot was just mentally not ok and wrote random stuff, we're just left here overanalysing his ramblings

 

[Bendwhat?_over]

I cannot do English.

Hello BOS users, I just want to come here and vent. Now I have traditionally been a stem student (as u can see by my signature) and have never been great at english (only exception is in junior years). I thought this year was the year I was going to change and adopt better habits for English...

boredofstudies.org

This may aid you.

 

[Bendwhat?_over]

you read the three little pigs, and you think the first pig is a bit of a dumbass because he built a house out of straw. what was problematic about that? it might be the fact that he chose the easiest route to his objective, in the shortest amount of time for instantaneous gratification, and the fact that he almost ends up wolf food can be extrapolated as authority for the proposition that sometimes in life, a bit of patience, foresight and effort leads to a better result, if you make a comparison to the third pig, who was smart enough to build a house out of bricks. you draw a juxtaposition between pig 1 and pig 3, the results that came about, and might go so far as to explore the metaphor of the human inclination to laziness and instant gratification, and go further to make comparison to your related text, peppa pig, in which george eats his breakfast too fast like the greedy bastard he is and gets a tummy ache. the characters did effectively the same thing in both texts, and suffered for it, so the obvious conclusion is, that thing was bad, you shouldn't do it.

the essay is the means you communicate your analysis in a structured format. you don't NEED big words or fancy techniques, it just so happens that different words exist for a reason and are often better suited to illustrating the point that you want to make. my introduction for the above purpose is that children's media gives early indoctrination into the pitfalls of instantaneous gratification and a lack of foresight, wherein the authors use the caricatures of pigs to metaphorically explore the damning consequences of lazy and impatient behaviour. in other words, pig teach kids that do thing too fast sometimes bad. my body paragraphs talk about which part of the texts tell us this, and how they do that. my conclusion is a summary of how my analysis proves my point, and a reiteration that the moral of the story is equally applicable to life itself. in other words, pig build house too fast and house go boom. human also build house. human and pig same. human no build house too fast or go boom. but not just house, also eat. human no do too fast or sometimes bad. faster not always more gooder.

 

[Hehehe22]

SO. REAL. But if this helps, I don't think a lot of people just come up with all these sophisticated ideas either; they get them from somewhere a lot of the time. It's painful, but you can try reading academic or critic articles to give you ideas. If you're doing adv, mod b is a critical study which means you'll have to do this anyway, but you can do the same for other modules too.

 

[lacedmalice]

Against of course. I’m literally the leader of the anti hsc English party (unofficial) u can join it

i wanna join

 

[lacedmalice]

I mean I guess English is kinda important but please don’t make it count towards our atar. I don’t mind doing it as long as I can just flunk it

real like they had to nerf us by making it compulsory then nerf us again by making it count even if its ur worst subject. so unfair. imagine if they had math compulsory instead. i wouldnt mind but the people that dont enjoy it would think its awful.

 

[lacedmalice]

wait til you do poetry again in mod B. ARHGHHH. what if TS Eliot was just mentally not ok and wrote random stuff, we're just left here overanalysing his ramblings

pls no

 

[Study to success]

wait til you do poetry again in mod B. ARHGHHH. what if TS Eliot was just mentally not ok and wrote random stuff, we're just left here overanalysing his ramblings

Omg my school does ts Elliot and I’m so screwed. Plz help me when I get to this next year. But I guess u can analyse like the messy form and structure to represent his mental state

 

[Bendwhat?_over]

u can analyse like the messy form and structure to represent his mental state

That's very clever. I also have some resources for T.S. Elliot, if you'd like. Not many, though.