I'm having real problems in English. To give some perspective - The half yearlies put me in the top 10 for all my subjects except english where I'm 86th....
I have no problem with the course content, which is really quite straightforward, but when it comes to essays I'm getting progressively worse marks; No matter how hard I try to do what the teachers say, it's still bad.
Last assessment I did absolutely everything we were told - techniques, backed up with quotes/examples, in every paragraph - and got 8/15.... worse still every comment on my paper was stating that my interpretation of my own choice poem was wrong.
Does anyone have any advice on what to do with english, or about why the comments might be so nasty (I'm not the only one, others in my class - the non-ext class - got similar)?
I have no problem with the course content, which is really quite straightforward, but when it comes to essays I'm getting progressively worse marks; No matter how hard I try to do what the teachers say, it's still bad.
Last assessment I did absolutely everything we were told - techniques, backed up with quotes/examples, in every paragraph - and got 8/15.... worse still every comment on my paper was stating that my interpretation of my own choice poem was wrong.
Does anyone have any advice on what to do with english, or about why the comments might be so nasty (I'm not the only one, others in my class - the non-ext class - got similar)?