How bad did I screw up my essay?

glasscube
Sat, 05 Oct 2013 15:44:02 +0000

It was the prompt about complacency hindering improvement. The prompt statement made it sound like it was talking about improving society and self improvement, but the question seemed to ask primarily about self improvement.

I used the American Revolution, women’s suffrage, and a few inventors as my examples… obviously referring to the improvement of society. While I did interpret it as complacency in terms of progress, I made it more about progress of society than progress of self. The essay itself was extremely well written… But will the topically question hurt me?