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Jessica Cook
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Winter 2024 - DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR AN EASY 'A' WRITING II GE. Overall, the class was extremely disorganized and did not focus on the skills we needed to excel in the essays. The professor mostly rambles about the assigned reading and how it is connected to other literary works, which almost always include Genesis. These works are not in the syllabus, so it is extremely difficult to connect to them. Moreover, the professor is extremely disorganized -- oftentimes, we had a 6-8 page essay due on Friday, and the requirements were not posted until Wednesday. Lastly, she is a VERY VERY VERY picky grader! For the amount of time she invests into teaching writing, she grades 10x (at least) harsher. Lastly, although the theme of the class is interesting, she still found ways to make it boring by using software like Transkribus. Distribution of the class: -- Participation (15%): expect ~150-200 pages a week starting Week 3. -- Group Project (5%): not hard, fairly straightforward -- Essay #1 (15%): 2-3 pages close-reading. GRADED EXTREMELY HARSHLY. She will point out incorrect punctuation and critique each and every single sentence. -- Essay #2 (20%): 6-8 pages on Frankenstein. She returned this essay to us 2 days before our final paper was due. -- Essay #3 (20%): 6-8 pages on Thrilling Adventures/Ada Lovelace. She returned this essay the day before the final. -- Essay #4 (25%): 10-12 pages on Arcadia. I definitely think essays 2, 3, and 4 were graded less harshly, but that could very well be due to the number of classes she canceled, how little time we had to write the essays, and how little time she had to grade them. Ultimately, though Sherrill (her maiden name is Cook) is nice and insightful, I would not recommend taking English 4W with her. This GE was the hardest class from my Winter 2024 coursework.
Winter 2024 - DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR AN EASY 'A' WRITING II GE. Overall, the class was extremely disorganized and did not focus on the skills we needed to excel in the essays. The professor mostly rambles about the assigned reading and how it is connected to other literary works, which almost always include Genesis. These works are not in the syllabus, so it is extremely difficult to connect to them. Moreover, the professor is extremely disorganized -- oftentimes, we had a 6-8 page essay due on Friday, and the requirements were not posted until Wednesday. Lastly, she is a VERY VERY VERY picky grader! For the amount of time she invests into teaching writing, she grades 10x (at least) harsher. Lastly, although the theme of the class is interesting, she still found ways to make it boring by using software like Transkribus. Distribution of the class: -- Participation (15%): expect ~150-200 pages a week starting Week 3. -- Group Project (5%): not hard, fairly straightforward -- Essay #1 (15%): 2-3 pages close-reading. GRADED EXTREMELY HARSHLY. She will point out incorrect punctuation and critique each and every single sentence. -- Essay #2 (20%): 6-8 pages on Frankenstein. She returned this essay to us 2 days before our final paper was due. -- Essay #3 (20%): 6-8 pages on Thrilling Adventures/Ada Lovelace. She returned this essay the day before the final. -- Essay #4 (25%): 10-12 pages on Arcadia. I definitely think essays 2, 3, and 4 were graded less harshly, but that could very well be due to the number of classes she canceled, how little time we had to write the essays, and how little time she had to grade them. Ultimately, though Sherrill (her maiden name is Cook) is nice and insightful, I would not recommend taking English 4W with her. This GE was the hardest class from my Winter 2024 coursework.
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