I sent what I’d thought was a near-final draft of this piece to a professor I met when I was 19 (I’m 41), he returned it to me 5 hours later with two pages of notes, a lot of tracked changes, and an offer to talk on the phone.
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Annie Abrams
Gift link to my argument in favor of teaching works of "serious literary value" in public schools: slate.com/life/2025/05...
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obnoxiously, at that point, I sent it mostly expecting praise—not the case with the version you saw, that was too much of a mess for this kind of feedback
tbh, am thinking about “standards” and what earns the “sophistication” point on ap—holding students to account