Oh, please, you're not being arrogant at all. <3 (And you do have a right to be proud of that. I wish I had a BA.) It sounds like you've just got a professor who's either lost touch with her field of study, or she's so set on her opinion and disagrees with you so much that she refuses to try and debate it. You did all you could. You can't force a teacher to see eye-to-eye with you if they're being stubborn.
I'm still sorry to hear she isn't addressing anything you've got to say, but I'm glad to hear she's agreed to pass your work to someone else. At the very least, you deserve somebody to comb through your paper with a neutral, critical eye rather than just shooting down your argument entirely because they may disagree with you. The point of writing an essay isn't to make everyone agree with you. The point of an essay is to support your stance on something and explain yourself and why you feel that way, source your shit and the texts you use to support your argument, and relate all of your points to each other. Yes, there's room to agree or disagree, and an educator is more than welcome to bring up a point and see how you respond to it, but ultimately that's what point of essay writing, more or less.
Hopefully you'll get better feedback from somebody else? I empathize with how a dismissal would affect you so badly. It's not just a matter of opinion. When it's your own writing, and somebody doesn't even want to really look over what you've written after working on it... it can definitely be a punch in the gut. :\
Apologies for the constant edits, by the way! It's late where I am, and I keep making typos or forgetting to add something.
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on 2013-05-06 08:35 am (UTC)I'm still sorry to hear she isn't addressing anything you've got to say, but I'm glad to hear she's agreed to pass your work to someone else. At the very least, you deserve somebody to comb through your paper with a neutral, critical eye rather than just shooting down your argument entirely because they may disagree with you. The point of writing an essay isn't to make everyone agree with you. The point of an essay is to support your stance on something and explain yourself and why you feel that way, source your shit and the texts you use to support your argument, and relate all of your points to each other. Yes, there's room to agree or disagree, and an educator is more than welcome to bring up a point and see how you respond to it, but ultimately that's what point of essay writing, more or less.
Hopefully you'll get better feedback from somebody else? I empathize with how a dismissal would affect you so badly. It's not just a matter of opinion. When it's your own writing, and somebody doesn't even want to really look over what you've written after working on it... it can definitely be a punch in the gut. :\
Apologies for the constant edits, by the way! It's late where I am, and I keep making typos or forgetting to add something.