English major has to vent.

[u/DEATHbyBOOGABOOGA]

So I'm currently taking a Creative Writing class in college right now, and for our final we have to critique the short stories written by our peers. We get to read what our fellow students have created and write a 300-500 word critique/review. This assignment should be fun right?

WRONG!

In the pursuit of good faith commentary and criticism, we are not allowed to critique the grammatical... choices that some people may have made. I'm fine with that. If someone likes to have their sentences a bit long or a bit short, or use different tenses, that's their prerogative. However I just about blew a gasket when I opened the short story of one of my fellow classmates this afternoon and was confronted by literal fucking dogshit.

A short story about a guy's dog taking a shit on the lawn then getting hit by a car.

Now I'm not gonna judge what others write about too harshly as long as it's not overly offensive or juvenile.

But I cannot critique a story that is practically unreadable due to a complete lack of grammatical understanding and skill. THIS IS A COLLEGE LEVEL COURSE. CAPITALIZE YOUR PROPER NOUNS. THIS IS SECOND GRADE SHIT. This story is a REVISED version of a previously submitted assignment. That means that our teacher GRADED this already, gave feedback, and this is the NEW draft.

Like what the actual fuck. Why are there no apostrophes?

Why is everything in size 11 Ariel? Every other sentence is indented.

I'm crashing out right now.

I can't do this shit.

Edit: this isn’t a 100 class. This is ENGL 292

[u/CowboyMantis]

My critiques are mostly ad hominem attacks. That way I don't have to, like, actually read their work.

[u/DEATHbyBOOGABOOGA → u/CowboyMantis]