Essays Are Dumb.

[Lego10man]

Who else here hates writing essays? BECAUSE I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DO!

[Cassidy]

I hate them too, but somehow I got A’s on my essays.

[Chuuya Nakahara]

Yes they are dumb.
Learning to write is dumb.
They should just teach kids how to text message with short abbreviations and teach em the meanings of emojis.

[Lego10man]

Originally posted by Vixinity:

I hate them too, but somehow I got A’s on my essays.

Did you ever have to use P.E.A.C.E for paragraph structure? Or is that only in Canada?

[Cassidy]

Originally posted by Lego10man:

Originally posted by Vixinity:

I hate them too, but somehow I got A’s on my essays.

Did you ever have to use P.E.A.C.E for paragraph structure? Or is that only in Canada?

I don’t know what P.E.A.C.E stands for, so it’s probably a thing in Canadian education.

I do know that I sucked at economics essays though, because for the life of me I could not understand how economics work.

[Lego10man]

Originally posted by Vixinity:

Originally posted by Lego10man:

Did you ever have to use P.E.A.C.E for paragraph structure? Or is that only in Canada?

I don’t know what P.E.A.C.E stands for, so it’s probably a thing in Canadian education.

I do know that I sucked at economics essays though, because for the life of me I could not understand how economics work.

The P of your PEACE paragraph must be the thematic statement you created.
E = a reference to the story that supports the thematic statement you created.
A = how or why does this reference support the thematic statement you created?
C = connect to another reference from the same text.
E = expand on the thematic statement you created by discussing how it relates to the world in a broader context or how it relates to what you already know about the idea.

[Cassidy]

Originally posted by Lego10man:

Originally posted by Vixinity:

I don’t know what P.E.A.C.E stands for, so it’s probably a thing in Canadian education.

I do know that I sucked at economics essays though, because for the life of me I could not understand how economics work.

The P of your PEACE paragraph must be the thematic statement you created.
E = a reference to the story that supports the thematic statement you created.
A = how or why does this reference support the thematic statement you created?
C = connect to another reference from the same text.
E = expand on the thematic statement you created by discussing how it relates to the world in a broader context or how it relates to what you already know about the idea.

Ah thanks for the explanation/elaboration; we didn’t have that in my country’s schools, but we did have to follow similar structures in our essays.

I don’t really know how I did it, I just wrote mine as though I was trying to debate and convince the reader to see my point of view.

[KriegerKR]

Essays were the easiest part of school, and probably the most fun for me.

[Vince ✟]

Essays are easy. Im writing a prospectus that is going on 13 pages. Thats not even a draft!

[76109108007942031]

Essays aren't too bad, especially if your teacher gives you a structure to help get you started/

[Lego10man]

My English teacher just went on Maternity Leave for the year so we have a new teacher for my senior year of high school. She actually uses this P.E.A.C.E paragraph structuring, whereas my previous teacher didn't really have a structure for us to follow. Now that we are supposed to be using this new structuring form, I am confused ,because for the past 3 years we have been doing things a lot different.

[crgzero]

I hated them, but always did well. I even had a few in college that got recognition and published in the school paper and later in the local city paper because of the subject etc. Long time ago though.

[Alaskan Catfish Hike]

I liked them as long as the topic wasn’t awful. Even if it was; challenge yourself to make it interesting. Longest one I ever turned in was about 14 pages; it needed to be 2ish. I started it in 11th grade, used it for a class and ended up used it again college.

2008-2013
Two teachers
Three editors

[Lego10man]

I have to write an essay on what we believe to be the theme of these 3 short stories that we have read and done work on. It isn't my strongpoint, like all of English class.

[Lego10man]

Originally posted by 100%XboxJuice:

what you're going to say
point 1
point 2
point 3
what you just said

Basically. I'm not going to follow this PEACE sh-it because it is screwing me up in terms of creating paragraphs because I have always done it differently.

[Alaskan Catfish Hike]

I am not going to do your work for you but what were the stories?