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10-23-2011, 03:02 PM
OK here are my questions.
1. You start with ぼくの趣味. Does your use of ぼくの reflect your immaturity as a writer, or is it better to say ぼくの趣味 as opposed to just 趣味?
2. Were you expected to use ます form in this essay (or in all school assignments?), or is this what kids assume they should use in school? I ask because true "essays" of the scholarly kind I see all use 普通体. We don't have such a distinction in English, so the difference between true literary work and junior high work is only in vocabulary usage, more complicated content, and other signals that reflect the increased education of the author. Of course junior high kids in Japan know 普通体, so it can't be chalked up to "lack of education in how to use 普通体."
Perhaps it's like how children in elementary school in the US are taught cursive handwriting and then forced to use it in all assignments? Just used to reinforce a skill by having it used everywhere possible...
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