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13878549

Anonymous Tue Sep 24 16:26:05 2019 No.13878549 [Reply] [Original]

>Introduction
>Three supporting paragraphs
>Conclusion

Do people actually write essays like this?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 24 16:28:10 2019 No.13878569 >>13878549 As opposed to what? >Insulting the reader as an ignorant midwit >Talking down to them about how you know so much more >Telling them if they still don't agree with you they're gay

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 24 16:29:19 2019 No.13878571 >>13878549 yes students do

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 24 16:43:32 2019 No.13878679 File: 132 KB, 680x760, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 24 16:44:55 2019 No.13878686 >>13878569 Do it the modernist/symbolist style. Don't actually "argue" your points, just make them implicit on a symbolic level, or don't state them at all, let your reader discover them through a negative dialectic.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 24 16:45:53 2019 No.13878698 >>13878549 Q. How do I write essays? A. I write them as catechisms

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 24 16:59:51 2019 No.13878788 >>13878686 Fucking lol

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 24 17:02:01 2019 No.13878801 File: 189 KB, 1080x1072, 1569131511820.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13878686 >write contemporary short fiction >call it an essay

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 24 17:06:05 2019 No.13878825 They forced this down our throats in highschool. By the time I reached uni, it struck me that no one had really taught me how to write an actual essay. It's a crutch for poor pedagogy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 24 17:09:21 2019 No.13878842 >>13878549 The state of Florida made me write essays like this starting in elementary school and taught me any other way to compose an essay was wrong.