It doesn't seem to want to let me post a link. I uploaded it on fiction press. The title is "Roman Essay (Not fiction just didn't have another place to upload)" and the poster is farawayfox. Keep in mind this is my first year of University, and I'm not an English major. I realize it isn't the best essay, but I don't feel it is all THAT terrible.

I just read the first paragraph of your essay, and it seems to me that your ideas and thoughts are solid and really good, but your organization and way of articulation needs considerable work. There's significantly less spelling errors than there are structural errors, and I can see where such subtle mistakes can be missed.

It seems like it was a case of your professor randomly flinging the word "spellcheck", like people often do. The issues are with the flow and sentence structure and your word processor won't help with that. I don't know what to tell you, reading a lot should help you improve in those areas. You're obviously doing a humanities degree, so the professors are in their right to expect a certain level of articulation. However, one would think that an English major would've been able to help with these issues in particular. PS: roman's =/= romans =/= romans'

I'm actually a Linguistics major. I took this as an elective.

And it was my TA who marked it. She has marked everything this semester, so I haven't been doing very well.

I would ask the TA to sit down and go over the essay with you line by line. That way you know for a fact what you did wrong or, simply, if they're an unfair grader.

I only asked the friend because my previous essay was butchered. This is the first time I've had someone look over my essay, I was just worried about receiving a terrible grade.

Far from all English majors are good editors or proofreaders, though many assume we all are. It's also worth noting that writing (though not all English majors write!) is a very different skill from editing. If you're not comfortable editing others' papers, however, it's always a good idea to tell them.

I didn't just ask her because she is an English major. I asked because she is my friend and I trust her to help. I also asked a different friend, to be sure I wasn't missing anything.

English majors are idiots, so there's that. You forgot the comma. This helpful hint brought to you by an idiot English major. :-)

Also, an ellipsis would add some emphasis to the comment (and I believe the ellipsis is the accepted punctuation for that idiom). "English majors are idiots, so there's that..." Without the ellipsis, you just sound like an idiot.