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04/08/12(Sun)02:07 No.18620195>>18620179 Practically speaking, you learn to communicate and deliver your ideas, something that the world needs a lot more of. English degrees are your second best friend as a diploma--on its own it won't land you much, but if you have pretty much any other degree PLUS English, it's a huge asset. Knowing your shit and being able to express it clearly, cleanly, and most of all, well, gets you far. You learn to recognize writing and formula--not necessarily method, but you pick up trends, themes, intent, and so on. A lot of studying the material entails trying to figure out where the author was coming from.
And honestly, it's not just a fluff major. My capstone course had me tear apart my favorite Lovecraft story word by word for a 16-page essay, which the professor handed back to me with "This needs to be a completely different paper." Never really gonna stack up to guys with 'real' degrees, but that shit isn't easy and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
And, if this fucking tome hasn't tipped you off, it teaches you how to write a lot. To be bleak, volume sells. Writing is kind of fucked that way. You're taught exactly the opposite, not to WORDS WORDS WORDS, though--I'm just tired, pedantic by nature, and trying to describe the field of study everyone else laughs at. |