ImagiNation

Just what do they want from me?

I don't know if anyone else has this problem at the graduate level but sometimes I just don't get it. We have to write a lot of "reflective" papers- meaning they want less quotes from outside sources and more of your opinion. But, I spent the entirety of my undergraduate life learning that my opinion wasn't all that great unless you could back it with lots of quotes and proof. So when I wrote my first "reflective" paper for my puppet class the professor said that I used too many quotes and more or less "reported" on the topic rather than givining my true thoughts on the subject. Now my second paper is basically all thoughts and opinions and the professor gives me a lesser grade and tells me that I am not "reflective enough". Apparently I do not know what it means to be reflective.

(reflective means: characterized or given to meditation or contemplation; thoughtful)

Even though I used the phrases, "I feel", "I think," "I realize," etc... in my paper multiple times, it was not reflective. Bull shit.

posted by imagine @ 11:33 AM