Having My Ass Handed to Me

Three weeks ago I sat in a professors office, as she went over my usageof comma’s, apostrophe’s, and I also had misspellings and other typos in midterm paper. Plus, I spelled an authors name wrong,? albeit consistently. Ouch!

Having been trained to write as a law student,? I learned to use comma’s differently than what she expected me to.? However,? my usage of possessives and plurals is unacceptable, and I am going to have to master this skill by this weekend. #prayforme

After about thirty minutes of sitting with her, I was like, well, how was the paper substantivily? I mean, I synthesized seven books, thematiclly and analyzed them.

She responded oh, it was fine. You just need to proofread more, hire an editor or both. She went on to say that provinding good content is just one half of it, the other is making sure that the paper is sound technically.

I had never synthesized such a large volume of information in my life.

This was a hard meeting to sit through.? However,? I am grateful for two reasons. The first is that getting feedback on your writing is priceless. It is the only way you can improve. I have homies who have waited months to get feed back from professors, so I feel really grateful. The other side of it is that the professor didn’t humiliate me when I said that I didn’t know how to do possesives.

People will not learn from you if you humiliate them.

I told her that I was lightweight embarrassed and? I wouldn’t hand in something with the same mistakes in May.

We believe in making NEW mistakes.

If you read my blog, you know I have very SPECIFIC gender and racial politics. If a person comments and I know that crazy out they mind, I don’t shut them down, I engage them. The ONLY way I will shut a jawn down is if they jump in a convo with having read. THAT is a no no.

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1. First, I need to be more careful with my language. In the paper I was talking about the future of the global city and I made a statement about the third world model being brought to the US, but in reality, I was talking about the Brazilian model. When she asked me what I meant, I said Brazilian, but in my paper I said third world. She went on to say that when Chomsky says the Brazilian model, he is talking about something very specific and that I can’t just be equivocating the two.

2. Second she told me that I can’t make sweeping conclusions or sweeping speculations like “The New York City may implode in the next 20 years.” I then mentioned that a New York City that builds working class housing for social workers, firefighters and cities is different than the one that just privatized the very same housing. She responded saying, Renina, you just went from speculation to something very concrete. Stay in the concrete. Luls.

3. Third, I need to write better transitions. Which I already knew. They are hard for me. And endings.

4.Fourth she commented on my usage of possessives.<<<ARRG.

5. She said I need to define my terms and concepts. I told her, thats the same thing the historians say! I told her that I use to write with way more assumptions, and I have gotten better at laying out my assumptions explicity, but there is work to be done in that area.

All in all, I know where both my strengths and my weaknesses are.

Its also nice to see how some areas have improved in the last four months and which areas I need to be a little BIT more careful.

Having your ass handed to you isn’t comfortable, but I am learning to deal with it. Its the only way I am going to get better.

When was the last time you had to sit through a review of your work?

How did you handle it?

Comments

  1. g@grandgood.com says

    i miss learning from professors

    been about 10 years since i’ve conversed with any kind of professional educator

    i cling to moments of mentorship at work but it’s not the same

  2. says

    Constantly, lol. Even though I barely write at any length, mistakes still get pointed out. Funny thing is I can catch them in others work, but proofing your own work is the worst.

    But you knew that, lol

  3. says

    MZ….Correcting!

    Ummp. You been correcting me since what ’06….#ummmhmmmm It’s all G.

    I appreciate it. Snark and all.#ummhmm.

  4. says

    I’m only trying to help, believe Gotty does the same thing to me. So nothing that I say to you that I don’t hear myself. If I wasn’t clear enough the first time. You should see some of the grammar emails he send me, lol

  5. admin says

    Re Gotty.

    Better you than me. I guess I can have typos here and none in my papers.

    Something tells me that the more careful I am writing in the papers, the more careful I will be
    here as well.

    Re correcting. I know you don’t mean no harm. YOU BEEN like that. Luls.

  6. says

    There’s one in “Your Man Is Lucky”

    #readysetgo… otherwise the email will follow, lol.

  7. says

    I allllmost hate to do this given the context, but…”The ONLY way I will shut a jawn down is if they jump in a convo with having read.”

    Did you mean WITHOUT having read?

  8. Renina says

    @Justin

    ?The ONLY way I will shut a jawn down is if they jump in a convo with having read.?
    ====
    For instance, If I am on twitUH and we are having a convo and someone jumps in w/o reading the context and simply takes sides. I don’t care whose side you take, so you have something meaningful to contribute.

    Or people who want to talk about a book or a movie but haven’t read or seen it. Its like, you don’t get to share on that homie.

    Thats what I mean.

  9. BP says

    That is a space of vulnerability that hurts but is necessary!!! So powerful I look forward to growing and improving myself and my writing.

    It takes so much courage!! I’m so proud of you. I haven’t had anyone read my stuff in awhile. I totally should now.

    🙂