What kind of teacher is she??PLEASE READ!?

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So for my english class we have to write a poetry book and today my teacher edited some of our poems. every poem i wrote she tore to shreds(not literaly) and rewrote all of them. i just wanted some advice like change this word to this i didn't want a new poem that isn't my own. Plus she is being a little mean person because the poems are supposed to be your OWN work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! people can only help to edit things like changing this word to that. What should I do???

love in siberia · Accepted Answer

tell her, if this is supposed to be your own invention, why is she tearing it up, and then re-writing it.  tell her that if it offends her, you can take out that part.

2.re-write it and tell her to accept it, or u are going to the principle.

3.tell her to cram it.

mommanuke · Answer

It's OK to explain to you what things don't work and why, but to simply change your work is ineffective.  For instance, a creative writing professor I had once explained that you could analyze the number of nouns and verbs versus the number of prepositions, conjunctions, and articles in your poem and the higher the ratio of the first to the second, the better your poem would flow.  But just changing a word here and there will not necessarily make a poem better.  But you have to deal with the kind of teacher she is, not the kind she should be.  It is a good lesson to learn early in life, since later you will have to deal with the kind of boss you work for, rather than the kind of boss they should be.  It's unlikely that any protest will improve her teaching abilities, so the best thing to do is to write the way she wants you to in class and write the way you want to out of class.

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What kind of teacher is she??PLEASE READ!?

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