The definition of frustration...

...is excelling in something that you love (in my case, writing) and having one teacher constantly negatively critique your work, and having another teacher tell you that you are doing excellent and acing everything with flying colors. Even if it is an "increased level of writing," I think that it's absolutely ridiculous that if I turn in the same exact paper to each of my literature classes, one would love it and one would give me an 85 on it just because it is not on the lines of her thinking. If I cannot use examples by saying "As discussed," or "Readers recognize this because," and I can't say "I" in my writings, then how on the face of this wide world can I write a decent paper? Given that this is college and we are not writing by any professional means yet, there is no reason to count off for what is not popularly said. Also, it is NOT plagarism if I write something that was from lecture as long as I mention that it was from the discussions in class. The whole reason teachers talk about things in class is to give us a better understanding of the subject matter we are studying and to give us a new perspective that we can work with. I do not understand how I am writing at the same level in two closely-related 200 level literature classes and not receiving the same grades. That does not make sense in the slightest. I realize that writing is all about negative criticism, and we as writers must learn to accept that there are people who will not care for our work, but a teacher has an obligation to assist students to succeed by any means necessary, and most want them to succeed. In my eyes, there are bad teachers out there and they need to recognize that if everyone sees a similiar problem going on with their grade, that is the teacher's problem, NOT the students'. If a student is doing everything in his/her power to make sure his/her homework assignments are done right and on time, then that student has upheld her obligations to her college education. It is then up to the teacher to give that student credit for doing so, and giving the grade that he/she deserves. So apparently, "we are your cheerleaders" does not apply to this particular teacher. It is only up to the students because we are basically teaching ourselves in my Lit 230 class, and we are the ones who are actually holding the foundation of the classroom together. Just because a teacher has all these awards, certificates, and degrees does NOT make her any better than the students who are desperately trying to do well in college, so that they can have a successful future. A teacher that is constantly detering students from learning all that they can is not a teacher at all.