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Amanda Allen ENGL101 Anonymous 01/15/2023	I got a decent grade in this class but I would not recommend taking her. Don't get me wrong, she is very kind, helpful and an amazing individual but if you are looking for good grades, she is not the best choice. She is quite critical about certain details and her major assignments consist of very few points. For example, an essay is 15 points. So, if you lose even 2 to 3 points here, your grades sharply falls to a B or C. Some advantages are that she is very accommodating and her class is blended so you barely have to go more than once a week which is very efficient.
Amanda Allen ENGL101 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/01/2022	Professor Allen was 100% the best choice for ENGL101. I loved her blended style, it suit the class very well. She's a fair grader and the assignments are your standard faire for a writing class. It's a hard class to NOT do well in. Recommend.
Amanda Allen ENGL101 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/15/2022	She is very nice and I personally suck at English. If you are honestly trying she is willing to help. Honestly, I thought she was a little too critical on some things because most people will never use this kind of writing again. It is what is thou. I think she is a safe and good option overall
Amanda Allen ENGL101 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/22/2021	Good professor, this is a subject I struggle in but had to take for the gen ed but was able to make it through with an A-. One major help was that the biggest assignment was before break, so while everyone else had to do it on top of all the other big final papers in the end, we were basically done before Thanksgiving. Blended was also great, only had to go in once a week with a short assignment the other day.
Amanda Allen ENGL101 Anonymous 12/16/2021	The class is blended which is extremely nice. The days where you are asynchronous you have a mini assignment to do, which never takes more than the class period. On the writing assignments, she gives good feedback and is available for office hours outside of this if you want more in depth feedback. She is a little bit of a hard grader, but as long as you take time and put in the work, you will be fine. If you are willing to put in work to get a good grade, I highly recommend taking Engl 101 with Professor Allen.
Amanda Allen ENGL101 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/09/2021	Blended class is super nice workload wise. She's really nice and makes the material as engaging as possible. She also gives in-depth feedback on your writing so you know exactly what you did wrong. She also generally helps you a lot with her feedback on the assignments before you start writing and gives good suggestions. The assignments are all well-explained and are all very approachable, I've heard so many things about other English teachers having really shit requirements but Prof. Allen has very reasonable requirements.
Amanda Allen ENGL101 Anonymous 12/09/2021	I'm going to start of this review by saying that she is a very nice professor. She clearly cares about her class, and I appreciate that. However, I cannot recommend taking her, largely due to the fact that there are many more English teachers in this school that will be far more lenient in their grading than this professor. If you are looking to have a strong A (as long as effort is put in), then look for another teacher. Allen grades far too harshly, and the low amount of points that each of her assignments is worth leads to your grade fluctuating wildly if you miss even one point on an assignment. It has been an absolute pain to be able to get a decent grade this semester due to this. Your assignments have to be near perfect if you want an A, and quite frankly a course of this type does not deserve to have this much work put into it. Again, nice teacher, but take another teacher. You will have an easier time and be far less worried about being perfect in every assignment.
Amanda Allen ENGL101 Expecting an A- Anonymous 04/02/2021	Professor Allen is extremely caring and respectful. She never loaded us with work (like the horror stories I heard from my friends in other ENGL101 classes) and she is great in office hours. I needed help narrowing my topic and finding a good angle, and she gave me good advice. She has "assignment sheets" for assignments that clearly lay out what she wants, and the assignments are never too much. I say she is very fair and it has been enjoyable.
Amanda Allen ENGL101 Expecting an A- Anonymous 04/14/2020	Prof Allen is great! She is extremely understanding to any student issues and manages to make a boring class enjoyable to come to. She never overworks her students and the class is very easygoing, but you still learn a lot. Definitely one of the better professors to take english from.
Amanda Allen ENGL101 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/18/2019	As a freshman in a blended ENGL101 class, I'm pretty glad I took it with Professor Allen. She is a very nice and easy-to-approach person who does her best to make her class interesting. Her assignments were usually less stressful than those I heard about assigned by other ENGL101 professors. She is a fair grader and if you check her grade distribution you'll see that most students receive in the A to B range. She definitely has the best interests of her students in mind. Overall, if you have the option to take her from ENGL101 and are willing to put effort into your work, I would recommend her.

Amanda Allen
ENGL101

Anonymous
01/15/2023

I got a decent grade in this class but I would not recommend taking her. Don't get me wrong, she is very kind, helpful and an amazing individual but if you are looking for good grades, she is not the best choice. She is quite critical about certain details and her major assignments consist of very few points. For example, an essay is 15 points. So, if you lose even 2 to 3 points here, your grades sharply falls to a B or C. Some advantages are that she is very accommodating and her class is blended so you barely have to go more than once a week which is very efficient.

Amanda Allen
ENGL101

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/01/2022

Professor Allen was 100% the best choice for ENGL101. I loved her blended style, it suit the class very well. She's a fair grader and the assignments are your standard faire for a writing class. It's a hard class to NOT do well in. Recommend.

Amanda Allen
ENGL101

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
05/15/2022

She is very nice and I personally suck at English. If you are honestly trying she is willing to help. Honestly, I thought she was a little too critical on some things because most people will never use this kind of writing again. It is what is thou. I think she is a safe and good option overall

Amanda Allen
ENGL101

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/22/2021

Good professor, this is a subject I struggle in but had to take for the gen ed but was able to make it through with an A-. One major help was that the biggest assignment was before break, so while everyone else had to do it on top of all the other big final papers in the end, we were basically done before Thanksgiving. Blended was also great, only had to go in once a week with a short assignment the other day.

Amanda Allen
ENGL101

Anonymous
12/16/2021

The class is blended which is extremely nice. The days where you are asynchronous you have a mini assignment to do, which never takes more than the class period. On the writing assignments, she gives good feedback and is available for office hours outside of this if you want more in depth feedback. She is a little bit of a hard grader, but as long as you take time and put in the work, you will be fine. If you are willing to put in work to get a good grade, I highly recommend taking Engl 101 with Professor Allen.

Amanda Allen
ENGL101

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/09/2021

Blended class is super nice workload wise. She's really nice and makes the material as engaging as possible. She also gives in-depth feedback on your writing so you know exactly what you did wrong. She also generally helps you a lot with her feedback on the assignments before you start writing and gives good suggestions. The assignments are all well-explained and are all very approachable, I've heard so many things about other English teachers having really shit requirements but Prof. Allen has very reasonable requirements.

Amanda Allen
ENGL101

Anonymous
12/09/2021

I'm going to start of this review by saying that she is a very nice professor. She clearly cares about her class, and I appreciate that. However, I cannot recommend taking her, largely due to the fact that there are many more English teachers in this school that will be far more lenient in their grading than this professor. If you are looking to have a strong A (as long as effort is put in), then look for another teacher. Allen grades far too harshly, and the low amount of points that each of her assignments is worth leads to your grade fluctuating wildly if you miss even one point on an assignment. It has been an absolute pain to be able to get a decent grade this semester due to this. Your assignments have to be near perfect if you want an A, and quite frankly a course of this type does not deserve to have this much work put into it. Again, nice teacher, but take another teacher. You will have an easier time and be far less worried about being perfect in every assignment.

Amanda Allen
ENGL101

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
04/02/2021

Professor Allen is extremely caring and respectful. She never loaded us with work (like the horror stories I heard from my friends in other ENGL101 classes) and she is great in office hours. I needed help narrowing my topic and finding a good angle, and she gave me good advice. She has "assignment sheets" for assignments that clearly lay out what she wants, and the assignments are never too much. I say she is very fair and it has been enjoyable.

Amanda Allen
ENGL101

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
04/14/2020

Prof Allen is great! She is extremely understanding to any student issues and manages to make a boring class enjoyable to come to. She never overworks her students and the class is very easygoing, but you still learn a lot. Definitely one of the better professors to take english from.

Amanda Allen
ENGL101

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/18/2019

As a freshman in a blended ENGL101 class, I'm pretty glad I took it with Professor Allen. She is a very nice and easy-to-approach person who does her best to make her class interesting. Her assignments were usually less stressful than those I heard about assigned by other ENGL101 professors. She is a fair grader and if you check her grade distribution you'll see that most students receive in the A to B range. She definitely has the best interests of her students in mind. Overall, if you have the option to take her from ENGL101 and are willing to put effort into your work, I would recommend her.