After exactly one month and one day of waiting, I finally
received a grade for my Narrative Essay.
It turns out it was worth the wait.
I scored a 90!
I also received something else that I did not get following
my first essay for this course: feedback
from the instructor. A .pdf copy of my
essay was sent to me with instructor comments and a detailed explanation of why
I received the grade I got.
Most of the notes on my essay from the instructor had to do
with formatting issues, such as not using quotation marks around a quote. I was actually paraphrasing, so I don’t think
the particular sentence actually required a quote, but perhaps they
misunderstood what I was going for. There were also notes like “every time you
start a new line of dialog begin a new paragraph.” I did have five points deducted for using
numerals rather than spelling out numbers of less than 100. Mind you, there is nothing about this particular
rule in my study materials. The final
critique from the instructor: “Great
story!” Well, I can certainly live with
that…and a score of 90.
Since it took about a month to receive a grade on this
essay, I’m going to attempt to really speed things along this week. It is my goal to write my next two essays and
submit them both next weekend. Once that
is done, I need to start cramming for my semester final exams. Those have me more worried than the
essays. I haven’t so much as looked at
some of this material in many, many months.
In some cases, it will almost be like I am learning the material all
over again. Hopefully, it will all come back
to me once I start reviewing the courses.
Up next: the
Reflective Essay writing assignment. I
have already finished the textbook portion of this assignment, so now it’s just
a matter of writing it. I think I can at
least write a rough draft over the next day or two, while I start the reading
assignments for the final assignment, the Persuasive Essay.
It’s going to be a lot of work, but this is it. It’s all coming to an end. Finally.