Michelle Von Euw | PlanetTerp

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Michelle Von Euw ENGL393 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/14/2024	This class had a lot of assignments and you're expected to write large volumes at once but the professor made this class as easy as possible. Her due dates frequently had blanket extensions or did not have hard deadlines, her late work policy was lenient, and she did not grade harshly. Not to get offensive but I think everyone that had a bad experience is probably just not very good at writing or has poor time management/work ethic.
Michelle Von Euw ENGL393 Anonymous 04/28/2024	If you're looking at her section debating whether or not it's worth it to take her so that you can be asynchronous, just go for the in-person section, it's not worth it.
Michelle Von Euw ENGL393 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/21/2024	Some of these reviews are exaggerating honestly. If you read her announcements weekly and submit your assignments on time, you will be fine. I will admit the due dates are really weird (9PM on a weekday sometimes??) Also, the content of this class is quite useless. You make a website akin to a resume which you will never use, and the final project is some sort of business proposal paper trying to find a solution to a problem you’ve identified. Not really useful stuff, but this class is pretty easy and asynchronous. Her ELMS page is awful to navigate but once you get the hang of it, there are clear instructions to all of these assignments. You can also always email her; she’s quite responsive and not as condescending as some of these reviews make her out to be. One thing I really don’t like is that for major assignments (the website, proposal, final project) she never gives anyone a 100%? Like ever? She assigns these grades as letter grades, so it’s practically impossible to get an A+ in this class since the maximum grade she gives is a 95% for some reason (she has this really weird grading scale that’s hard to explain). I would probably take this class with another professor if I had the chance to redo this course but if she’s your only option left, it’s not the worst. Be punctual and thorough with your assignments; it’s not that much work overall.
Michelle Von Euw ENGL393 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/09/2024	I’ll admit this class is not very useful in terms of the assignments given. lf you complete the assignments based on the instructions, you’ll probably get an A on each one. They aren’t really hard assignments, but it sucks that each major assignment can really impact your grade. Michelle is easy to reach if you need any clarification. I just wish she gave feedback on draft assignments before we have to submit the finalized versions, because we all know peer review is mostly bs.
Michelle Von Euw ENGL393 Anonymous 02/21/2023	avoid at all costs. don't learn a single thing about technical writing, the entire semester is focused on some random project that has nothing to do with technical writing. annoying assignments that aren't hard but she gives no feedback to improve your work from before and expects you to know what you did wrong based on powerpoints she provides. only took it with her because all other slots were full.
Michelle Von Euw ENGL393 Expecting a B Anonymous 11/18/2022	I would give her zero stars if I could. No focus on technical writing whatsoever, the entirety of the course is basically focused around a making up a problem and writing a paper on how to solve it requiring interviews and/or sending out surveys. Two things which are extremely difficult to find time to do for basically anyone taking a near full slate of technical courses. Her feedback is unhelpful and unclear, her standards are vague and amorphous at best and completely absent at worst. She demands that you bring your personal life into this class for no legitimate reason, and the workload here relative to the usefulness of the information makes you want to just quit of the whole thing and focus on your real classes. Avoid her at basically all costs.
Michelle Von Euw ENGL393 Expecting a B Anonymous 10/13/2022	Please save yourself months of trouble and take another professor! This class is very unorganized and the teacher is not skilled in explaining assignment guidelines. She had us create an ELMS profile the first week of class, and I completed all of the guidelines, wrote 3 paragraphs of information on my profile, and added my pronouns (all information she told us to include). But she gave me 0/10 because for some reason my email wasn't showing up, despite my adding it. This is just an example of her overall attitude to the class. She often does not grade on a rubric, which means she hands out 0s if you do not do the assignment perfectly to her liking. I brought my concerns to her attention and she responded by saying that she made everything clear and that I should have read the assignment better. Considering that this is an online class, there should be more grace for misunderstandings. But practically speaking, adding a rubric would have alleviated any confusion. I have a feeling she may enjoy giving out 0s for some reason.
Michelle Von Euw ENGL393 Anonymous 02/27/2022	Horrible. The class does not focus on technical writing and instead focuses on a useless end of semester project that has students creating their own problems just so they can write about solving one.
Michelle Von Euw ENGL393 Expecting an A- Anonymous 01/26/2022	I thought Michelle was a great teacher, and the work wasn't overwhelming. The final project isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Just put in a little work and you'll be fine.
Michelle Von Euw ENGL393 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/22/2021	Avoid her. She accepts late work but it's because she doesn't make everything clear. It is very difficult to get in contact with her as she doesn't reply most of the time. Every assignment is unclear. There is a lot of work that helps make your final better though. Overall, I would not recommend this to someone who isn't willing to put in the work for this class.
Michelle Von Euw ENGL393 Expecting a B DangerousSoup 10/15/2021	This class was a lot of work and everything was graded harshly. She didn't actually have lectures, just links to readings and occasional videos. With that being said, she didn't actually teach us anything we needed to know for assignments. Most assignments were unclear and she sometimes grades based on criteria that you didn't know about. Also, her elms page is not well organized. She is very supportive of your ideas, but what she says is inconsistent and she can be very mean. I had an issue where she approved my project topic, but after I wrote the proposal, she told me the topic was no longer valid.
Michelle Von Euw ENGL393 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/19/2021	Everyone seems to not like her, but I thought this class was very self explanatory and she was very responsive. Read the announcements every week and you'll be set. Throughout the semester you do smaller assignments that lead up to a final research paper. Overall the assignments were pretty straight forward, but she was always willing to clarify through email if there was confusion.
Michelle Von Euw ENGL393 Anonymous 11/13/2020	Absolutely awful. You write a paper for the class to bring a solution to a real world problem. This is fine, but she is very bad at communicating what she wants and the actual timeline of assignments. Her feedback was never helpful and overall you aren't going to gain anything meaningful from this class.
Michelle Von Euw ENGL393 Anonymous 04/03/2020	This is without a doubt the worst, most useless class I've ever taken at UMD. She forces you to do a project where you have to pick a real problem at one of the organizations you're involved in outside the university, and present a technical report/manual providing solutions to this problem. You are forced to interview people or give out surveys to a lot of people to get a passing grade. You are completely out of luck if you either don't have a problem or people to interview. There were a few assignments on cover letters, resumes and memos, which are great and what ENGL393 should be, but the biggest project is a completely stupid source of anxiety. I wish she would focus more on just writing formally than forcing you to bring your own life into this class.

Michelle Von Euw
ENGL393

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/14/2024

This class had a lot of assignments and you're expected to write large volumes at once but the professor made this class as easy as possible. Her due dates frequently had blanket extensions or did not have hard deadlines, her late work policy was lenient, and she did not grade harshly. Not to get offensive but I think everyone that had a bad experience is probably just not very good at writing or has poor time management/work ethic.

Michelle Von Euw
ENGL393

Anonymous
04/28/2024

If you're looking at her section debating whether or not it's worth it to take her so that you can be asynchronous, just go for the in-person section, it's not worth it.

Michelle Von Euw
ENGL393

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/21/2024

Some of these reviews are exaggerating honestly. If you read her announcements weekly and submit your assignments on time, you will be fine. I will admit the due dates are really weird (9PM on a weekday sometimes??) Also, the content of this class is quite useless. You make a website akin to a resume which you will never use, and the final project is some sort of business proposal paper trying to find a solution to a problem you’ve identified. Not really useful stuff, but this class is pretty easy and asynchronous. Her ELMS page is awful to navigate but once you get the hang of it, there are clear instructions to all of these assignments. You can also always email her; she’s quite responsive and not as condescending as some of these reviews make her out to be. One thing I really don’t like is that for major assignments (the website, proposal, final project) she never gives anyone a 100%? Like ever? She assigns these grades as letter grades, so it’s practically impossible to get an A+ in this class since the maximum grade she gives is a 95% for some reason (she has this really weird grading scale that’s hard to explain). I would probably take this class with another professor if I had the chance to redo this course but if she’s your only option left, it’s not the worst. Be punctual and thorough with your assignments; it’s not that much work overall.

Michelle Von Euw
ENGL393

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/09/2024

I’ll admit this class is not very useful in terms of the assignments given. lf you complete the assignments based on the instructions, you’ll probably get an A on each one. They aren’t really hard assignments, but it sucks that each major assignment can really impact your grade. Michelle is easy to reach if you need any clarification. I just wish she gave feedback on draft assignments before we have to submit the finalized versions, because we all know peer review is mostly bs.

Michelle Von Euw
ENGL393

Anonymous
02/21/2023

avoid at all costs. don't learn a single thing about technical writing, the entire semester is focused on some random project that has nothing to do with technical writing. annoying assignments that aren't hard but she gives no feedback to improve your work from before and expects you to know what you did wrong based on powerpoints she provides. only took it with her because all other slots were full.

Michelle Von Euw
ENGL393

Expecting a B
Anonymous
11/18/2022

I would give her zero stars if I could. No focus on technical writing whatsoever, the entirety of the course is basically focused around a making up a problem and writing a paper on how to solve it requiring interviews and/or sending out surveys. Two things which are extremely difficult to find time to do for basically anyone taking a near full slate of technical courses. Her feedback is unhelpful and unclear, her standards are vague and amorphous at best and completely absent at worst. She demands that you bring your personal life into this class for no legitimate reason, and the workload here relative to the usefulness of the information makes you want to just quit of the whole thing and focus on your real classes. Avoid her at basically all costs.

Michelle Von Euw
ENGL393

Expecting a B
Anonymous
10/13/2022

Please save yourself months of trouble and take another professor! This class is very unorganized and the teacher is not skilled in explaining assignment guidelines. She had us create an ELMS profile the first week of class, and I completed all of the guidelines, wrote 3 paragraphs of information on my profile, and added my pronouns (all information she told us to include). But she gave me 0/10 because for some reason my email wasn't showing up, despite my adding it. This is just an example of her overall attitude to the class. She often does not grade on a rubric, which means she hands out 0s if you do not do the assignment perfectly to her liking. I brought my concerns to her attention and she responded by saying that she made everything clear and that I should have read the assignment better. Considering that this is an online class, there should be more grace for misunderstandings. But practically speaking, adding a rubric would have alleviated any confusion. I have a feeling she may enjoy giving out 0s for some reason.

Michelle Von Euw
ENGL393

Anonymous
02/27/2022

Horrible. The class does not focus on technical writing and instead focuses on a useless end of semester project that has students creating their own problems just so they can write about solving one.

Michelle Von Euw
ENGL393

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
01/26/2022

I thought Michelle was a great teacher, and the work wasn't overwhelming. The final project isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Just put in a little work and you'll be fine.

Michelle Von Euw
ENGL393

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/22/2021

Avoid her. She accepts late work but it's because she doesn't make everything clear. It is very difficult to get in contact with her as she doesn't reply most of the time. Every assignment is unclear. There is a lot of work that helps make your final better though. Overall, I would not recommend this to someone who isn't willing to put in the work for this class.

Michelle Von Euw
ENGL393

Expecting a B
DangerousSoup
10/15/2021

This class was a lot of work and everything was graded harshly. She didn't actually have lectures, just links to readings and occasional videos. With that being said, she didn't actually teach us anything we needed to know for assignments. Most assignments were unclear and she sometimes grades based on criteria that you didn't know about. Also, her elms page is not well organized. She is very supportive of your ideas, but what she says is inconsistent and she can be very mean. I had an issue where she approved my project topic, but after I wrote the proposal, she told me the topic was no longer valid.

Michelle Von Euw
ENGL393

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/19/2021

Everyone seems to not like her, but I thought this class was very self explanatory and she was very responsive. Read the announcements every week and you'll be set. Throughout the semester you do smaller assignments that lead up to a final research paper. Overall the assignments were pretty straight forward, but she was always willing to clarify through email if there was confusion.

Michelle Von Euw
ENGL393

Anonymous
11/13/2020

Absolutely awful. You write a paper for the class to bring a solution to a real world problem. This is fine, but she is very bad at communicating what she wants and the actual timeline of assignments. Her feedback was never helpful and overall you aren't going to gain anything meaningful from this class.

Michelle Von Euw
ENGL393

Anonymous
04/03/2020

This is without a doubt the worst, most useless class I've ever taken at UMD. She forces you to do a project where you have to pick a real problem at one of the organizations you're involved in outside the university, and present a technical report/manual providing solutions to this problem. You are forced to interview people or give out surveys to a lot of people to get a passing grade. You are completely out of luck if you either don't have a problem or people to interview. There were a few assignments on cover letters, resumes and memos, which are great and what ENGL393 should be, but the biggest project is a completely stupid source of anxiety. I wish she would focus more on just writing formally than forcing you to bring your own life into this class.