I have an essay due for my HS senior English final. Don't have any friends so its available here [Imperialism, Vietnam, and Sacred Soldiers] if I could get some feedback. I changed the name of myself and the teacher for privacy; the prompt is "How do varying perspectives, points of view, and narrative techniques define the diverse experiences of a conflict?", "the conflict" being the Vietnam War. The "two sources out of ten" comment is referencing a project for this essay where we had to write notes on ten assigned sources for the final. Most sources are from my own research/reading. Unfortunately it does have to be 12 pt and double spaced even though that gives you like five words a page.

Edit: don't mind the "we are challenged with" bit at the beginning, it's been removed in the actual document

  • Asia_Set [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    English teachers have to read and mark essays of this length from all their students? That’s crazy

    I had a similar thought, but I think OP @robinn might have gone beyond length requirements in order to better deliver his argument. It's hard for me to imagine a high school teacher imposing a 20 page or so minimum when their students often can't sequester as much time for a single class/assignment like college students can. But hopefully his teacher is cool with how much he wrote lol