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Grace Kwon
ENGL101S Expecting a P Anonymous 05/15/2020 |
WORST TEACHER EVER DO NOT TAKE. I made the mistake of not looking at these reviews before I signed up for the class, and I got stuck with this terrible teacher. I am a straight A student and have always gotten A’s in English. On the first assignment For this class I got a 69%! |
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Grace Kwon
ENGL101S Anonymous 03/26/2020 |
Classes always seemed very rushed. Also didn't help that basically every class she would always complain about "having so much homework" in grad school. Very unprofessional to complain to your students. I understand trying to relate to them, but when you're already a terrible teacher it just makes you look even worse. Even if you did everything that was required for the assignment, you would receive a C because you didn't "wow" her. The fast pace of the course also made it incredibly difficult to have proper time to improve my writing, as each assignment built on the previous one and grades normally weren't given until after the new assignment was already due, so you wouldn't even understand what you did wrong until after you already had to fix it (I understand this is more so because of UMD's design of the course, but alas). I strongly recommend to anyone that needs to take engl101 to especially stay away from Kwon and sign up for other professors instead. |
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Grace Kwon
ENGL101S Anonymous 12/02/2019 |
Class is a huge challenge to keep up in. This isn't the fault of Kwon herself, but instead the fault of UMD's english 101 system. That said, it's very challenging and stressful when this is combined with her unforgiving grading style. I spent many long nights writing, checking over, and editing my papers, just to be sure that I could get a passing grade. Class itself isn't terrible, but often seems rushed due to there being "very little time", as she puts it. As a result, very few individual concerns are addressed in class. Kwon's office hours are useful, but ultimately, her class is very stressful and time-consuming. |
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Grace Kwon
ENGL101S Expecting a B+ Anonymous 11/22/2019 |
This professor is an incredibly hard grader. Also, she treats her students like they are a distraction from writing her dissertation. She is unprofessional since she is always complaining about the amount of homework she needs to do for her graduate school classes. Furthermore, she is biased towards the one English major in the class and does not view the other students as favorably. |
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Grace Kwon
ENGL101 Anonymous 09/05/2019 |
Compared to other lecturers, Kwon is really tough and pedantic when it comes to grading writing assignments. That being said, that would not be such a bad thing if her teaching quality and composure paralleled her "leave no prisoners" grading style, but that's not the case. Her passion for the students is paralleled only by her propensity to be disorganized and prone to stress, which tends to come off poorly in her teaching and assignments. Office hours (which she is pretty generous with, I'll give her that) are a MUST if you want a grade that'll make you not contemplate getting a rope necklace from Home Depot. |