RANT on school essay requirements

ok first off, im not complaining about writing essays, i dont care for that, but the self edit sheet that we recieved really pissed me off. its one thing to check for mistakes but what we recieved is outrageous.

  1. Have you used semicolons? If not, find a sentece or a pair of sentences that would be better punctuated with a semicolon and rewrite
  1. Have you used any dashes? (same thing as above)
  2. have you inverted any senteces (same thing as above)

how can u assume that by doing this, your essay will be made better? i wouldnt have cared if she had said, “could you use a colon” but no, she implied “put in a colon or im talking points off”.