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Amanda Fiore
ENGL393 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/22/2023 |
professor fiore does the absolute most. she doesn't know how to give credit where it's due-- you could implement all her feedback from a draft assignment and she can STILL find ways to shoot down your work and take off extra points for no reason. the workload for this class isn't reasonable at all, please take any other professor but her because i think she doesn't know what she's doing half the time. she thinks that this is the only class we take and she talks about how we need to pertain to our audience yet she can never meet her student's needs!!! maybe she should take her own advice |
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Amanda Fiore
ENGL393 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/22/2023 |
this is her first semester teaching at umd. pretty harsh grader, and she does care a lot about tiny details, even if they dont really matter. very hard to get an A on big assignments. theres an assignment where she will grade your resume after going over guidelines and whatever. however, my resume (proven successful with multiple internships) kinda got picked apart, because CS resume language is techy. half of the year will be spent working on group projects that build up to the final paper, but a LOT of the class was spent doing stupidly long peer reviews. her course page is a little disorganized (it is her first year using canvas after all). she is reasonably accomodating as well. overall, the class is NOT hard. she just makes it more annoying than it has to be. look, there are worse professional writing teachers. if youre aiming for an A, its very annoying. if you want to pass, just be able to bullshit at length. |
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Amanda Fiore
ENGL391 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/12/2023 |
I felt like I could never do anything right in this class. She wanted us to all write in the same formulaic way, so I changed my entire writing style to fit her examples, though my work was still no "better." The grading for this class is ridiculous, the average on every assignment was way lower than it should've been for what this class is. For someone who loves writing and whose major is just a whole bunch of writing, the professor made me feel heavily discouraged and unconfident. The content itself was not a challenge, but paired with the professor... this may be one of the most annoying classes you take at UMD. |
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Amanda Fiore
ENGL393 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/02/2023 |
she is new to umd so i had no expectations for her. she is an extremely hard grader and is so picky about the tiniest details. the highest grade i have gotten on any major assignment is a 91 (excluding extra credit points) and she herself admitted that she never gives 100s. she can also be condescending and unclear in her feedback. most of the class is a long group research project made up of many long assignments that take way too much time and don't really prepare you for the real world. the final proposal is also really long and tedious. only the first 2 assignments (ePortfolio and cover letter/resume) at least kind of help. for someone who emphasizes attention to the audience so much, she should be doing the same thing to her audience (us students) better. please take this class with a different professor. |
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Amanda Fiore
ENGL391 Expecting an A- Anonymous 11/14/2023 |
Such a hater bruh, if you just tryna take this as a Gen Ed then don't take her; be acting like this your only class sometimes she need to calm down. |