hi writers! I have a question for you....

If she wants to edit it or add some words, she must get your permission first.
Otherwise talk to her nicely about your problem.
Maybe she would understand.
Goodluck!!!

:)

I understand making edits to things such as grammer and spelling, if necessary. If she's taking out parts, such as entire phrases, then it may be questionable. If it's just words here and there, I think it is helpful to you, or could be.

But, one question I have is does she let you view the edited work before submitting it? I think it is best if she checks with you before removing anything, overall.

Tell her to leave UR work alone! she can ask if u want 2 change the wording but otherwise hands off lady. she mayb the teacher but she is not the writer.

It's great that your teacher sends your stuff away but she has no right to change them.

If SHE doesn't like them that doesn't mean that others won't. She may know what's better but it is your work and isn't that something like copyright? I don't know. Anyway, she should go over your work with you if she wants to edit it.

Tell her to bugger off and stop changing your writing peices.
If you wrote down a specific thing for a specific reason, then her changing it could make you not like it as much and that ruins the writing experiences for you.

Good luck!!!

It's probably not good.

Maybe if she's sending it to a strict school-like competition with strict rules, she may want to replace some of the inappropriate words with some milder ones with the same meaning.

However, other than that, she should not alter your work. It's your work, and she shouldn't be messing with it. You wrote it the way you did for a reason. She isn't you; she doesn't know what you really want.

Just talk to her, ask her in a polite, perhaps indirect way to let your work be; you like it the way it is, and before altering ANYTHING, she should discuss it thoroughly with you, explain why she wants to change it and get your direct permission.

Good luck!

It is nice of her to change your work for you,but with out your concent thats a total no-no.
Its your own work,its what she said was great to go to the literature competions in the first place then therefore she has no right.You wrote them from your own heart and belong to you.
you could just tell her not to chage any words,just punctuation. If she doesnt like it then its her problem:).
My teachers do that to me all the time,she is a teacher but i dont even take her advice with the words she says because it never makes sence,she probebly secretly bald anyway:)

It's your work after all. If she wants to edit and change YOUR work to make it suit her then she may as well be writing her own poetry and sending off her own poetry. I think they should just stay as they are :)

tell her all edits have to be run through by u and she cant change it if u dont like it its ur work after all her adding stuff stops it from being just urs

It really depends on what she edits, if she edits of what is important to you or just chunks of your poems. Then she truely has no right to do so. But, if it was simple grammer errors then that's okay. That us all to you, you are the writer and it is your writing.

I thin editing is important when it comes to grammatical errors, but I think that if she is removing parts that are related to the poem would ruin the scheme of the mood. But even if you have swear words in your poems, or anything related to the subject, even that shouldn't be destroyed. It's important, but keep in mind that having cuss words every line isn't good for the audeince either...why am i giving you a lecture? even i don't know...but that's just my opinion... sorry... -.-

It's yours. If she doesn't like that, she shouldn't have anything to do with them. If you want her to edit it, you'll tell her, otherwise, it's not for a grade, right? Well, even if it is, she still shouldn't do that. Especially if she sends them to competitions, because then, it's just like her work, not yours. Honestly, I think it's up to you. You could ask for suggestions to make it better, but she shouldn't force that on you.

thats not right. its your poetry. she cant do that.

Whenever teachers in the past have edited my work, I asked to sit down with them and talk through all the edits. I think, rather than outright telling your teacher to leave your work alone, you should try this. It can be extremely beneficial to you, and shows the teacher that you are serious and care about what you write.

Go through the piece with them, start to finish, and ask what has been changed and why. This way you get to explain why you wrote it the way you did, or alternatively you might just agree with her when she explains some of the reasoning for her changes to it.

Whether she is sending it off to a competition or not, as an educator, if she is changing things in your writing and not telling you why, she's not really doing her job fully. If she doesn't discuss things with you, I don't know how she thinks you'll ever learn or progress.

Writers are a passionate bunch, and while of course you need to learn to advocate for your writing, sometimes the writer also needs to step back and take criticism. Writing is a craft, and even 50 year old, published authors will admit that they are always learning, and always practising. Even Stephen King and J.K. Rowling have editors to answer to!

Each line has a message behind it, it's perfectly acceptable to help with grammar or spelling, however, I can say that if you added bad spelling or changed the grammar around (i.e. having a line with no grammar and then putting a comma after the first word in the second sentence.) then yes you will need to speak to your teacher.

what is the question?

I do not really think it is right for her to change your writing so drastically. If she wants to discus some word changes with you by all means. If she wants to edit gram. and stuff. But she should at least check with you about anything else otherwise it is not really your work

If she's fixing misspellings or typos, then I think it's okay. Obviously, you don't want it to be sent in with a bunch of typos and, sometimes, it's good to have someone go over your work. I'd even say it's okay if she's taking out small, unneeded words (maybe you have a "the" and it really isn't necessary).

However, if she's drastically altering it (meaning, anything other than typos and very, very small unneeded words) than that is a big NO. It's your work, not hers. She really should be consulting you about it - maybe something she's took out was something that you (the writer) thought needed to be there. Everyone views poetry differently. Your teachers views it differently than you, so, what she thinks doesn't sound right sounds perfectly fine to you.

I guess it's ok that the teaches do that (well depending what they do to edit or take out afew things) because may be they'll trying to get your're poems the best it can be cause of sumiting into lit. competions & and help u do the best u can be u know?

~P.S u don't have to agree with me or any thing just saying what I think~