i will never call a tumblr post an “essay” unless it has been peer-reviewed and has an impact factor of at least … etc.
That's kind of been the problem with it, actually. It's just the peers are terrible and the impact has been worse.
(Anecdata - in middle school, we were forced to write "essays" on a weekly basis and they were hell and most of us wrote bullshit, so to me, "essay" is some bullshit, lol)
(haha, yeah - eventually our trick became to write - and these were persuasive essays - one subject and the next week write the opposite: "New Textbooks Would Be Good"/"New Textbooks Would Be Bad", but of course bullshit because we were in middle school.
I'm pretty sure I ended my middle school career with "Writing Persuasive Essays Every Week Is Bad" and this probably informs a lot of my public school experience, doesn't it?)
@kalloway (but just think of the early training it gave you for writing and also rolling your eyes at fannish meta shite lolololololooool ~)
@kalloway @tre
A long post on tumblr or anywhere else is an "essay" in any case; the peer-reviewed document is a(n) (academic) "paper".
(so kalloway, your assessment of school bullshite is spot on, lol ~)
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essay
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noun
es·say ˈe-ˌsā
senses 2, 3 & 4 also
e-ˈsā
Synonyms of essay
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a
: an analytic or interpretative literary composition usually dealing with its subject from a limited or personal point of view
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: something resembling such a composition//
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/essay