Sheila Lalwani | PlanetTerp

Information	Review
Sheila Lalwani ENGL393 Expecting an A- Anonymous 01/25/2023	she suck fr
Sheila Lalwani ENGL393 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/13/2021	Massive workload for minimal feedback, rough drafts are expected to be final drafts. Depend on peer reviews for feedback on major assignments. Mandatory conferences even though it is a asynchronous course. Harsh grader.
Sheila Lalwani ENGL393 Anonymous 11/02/2021	DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS. I signed up for an asynchronous class but had mandatory synchronous zoom sessions where the only thing covered was material we had already read in our asynchronous work. Feedback was one of two paragraphs copied and pasted for all students with no justification for deductions. She ruined what should have been a useful class.
Sheila Lalwani ENGL393 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/19/2021	She is a decent professor. This class was totally online and she was pretty hands-off. Final drafts were due 7 days after submission of the first draft, and she often did not get feedback to you until the day the final draft is due. You rely primarily on peer reviews to improve your papers, and honestly most of the peer reviews aren't great quality. However, her grading on final drafts is fair and not too harsh. The peer reviews and first drafts are graded harshly (top score is always an 85% at best) and will bring down your grade if you're aiming for an A. Overall, she is not as bad as some of the reviews online suggest and I would not mind taking her again.
Sheila Lalwani ENGL393 Expecting a P Anonymous 06/08/2020	I tried to give her a chance but she's a piece of shit. Coarse load is way too high. She makes you have a conference with her for every major assignment. She usually gives useless criticism because she doesn't actually read your rough draft. If you ask for specific instances of the issues she mentions, she'll dodge the question and in one instance got super passive aggressive with me because she "already told" me that I had the issue..... Lots of times we would get our grade and feedback for rough drafts AFTER the final draft was due. B1G brain. Avoid her class at all costs.
Sheila Lalwani ENGL393 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/08/2019	Shes a pretty good professor. The class is busy work but it is a gen ed requirement. I really only spent 3 hours max a week on work aside from when we had big writing assignments due like the research paper and a 2 other major assignments. Aside from that, if you submit a decent enough paper you will do fine in this class. She even offers some extra credit at the end of the semester for doing course evaluations and going to the writing center. She really cares about her students and even though this was an online class, I really connected with her more than I do with other professors and she gives good feedback on your drafts to help you improve and get a good grade on the final draft.
Sheila Lalwani ENGL393 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 04/26/2018	If you have a choice between taking Shelia's class and being attacked by a rabid raccoon, you'll probably have a better time and a better chance of success taking on the raccoon. She teaches nothing, most of the class is annoying busy work, and is a horrendously terrible communicator. On multiple occasions she has been unable to answer even basic questions by email, and often deducts large amounts of points from your writing without explaining why. She also provides rubrics but refuses to use them. When you peer review other students, she makes you research their topics and give them sources to include in their paper - literally doing their work for them. It's really hard to do well in her class but grades are inflated for the low end, so everyone is pushed toward a mediocre grade. This course was more time consuming than the overwhelming majority of my engineering classes, even though the material is much easier, because she assigns so much unnecessary work.

Sheila Lalwani
ENGL393

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
01/25/2023

she suck fr

Sheila Lalwani
ENGL393

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/13/2021

Massive workload for minimal feedback, rough drafts are expected to be final drafts. Depend on peer reviews for feedback on major assignments. Mandatory conferences even though it is a asynchronous course. Harsh grader.

Sheila Lalwani
ENGL393

Anonymous
11/02/2021

DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS. I signed up for an asynchronous class but had mandatory synchronous zoom sessions where the only thing covered was material we had already read in our asynchronous work. Feedback was one of two paragraphs copied and pasted for all students with no justification for deductions. She ruined what should have been a useful class.

Sheila Lalwani
ENGL393

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/19/2021

She is a decent professor. This class was totally online and she was pretty hands-off. Final drafts were due 7 days after submission of the first draft, and she often did not get feedback to you until the day the final draft is due. You rely primarily on peer reviews to improve your papers, and honestly most of the peer reviews aren't great quality. However, her grading on final drafts is fair and not too harsh. The peer reviews and first drafts are graded harshly (top score is always an 85% at best) and will bring down your grade if you're aiming for an A. Overall, she is not as bad as some of the reviews online suggest and I would not mind taking her again.

Sheila Lalwani
ENGL393

Expecting a P
Anonymous
06/08/2020

I tried to give her a chance but she's a piece of shit. Coarse load is way too high. She makes you have a conference with her for every major assignment. She usually gives useless criticism because she doesn't actually read your rough draft. If you ask for specific instances of the issues she mentions, she'll dodge the question and in one instance got super passive aggressive with me because she "already told" me that I had the issue..... Lots of times we would get our grade and feedback for rough drafts AFTER the final draft was due. B1G brain. Avoid her class at all costs.

Sheila Lalwani
ENGL393

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/08/2019

Shes a pretty good professor. The class is busy work but it is a gen ed requirement. I really only spent 3 hours max a week on work aside from when we had big writing assignments due like the research paper and a 2 other major assignments. Aside from that, if you submit a decent enough paper you will do fine in this class. She even offers some extra credit at the end of the semester for doing course evaluations and going to the writing center. She really cares about her students and even though this was an online class, I really connected with her more than I do with other professors and she gives good feedback on your drafts to help you improve and get a good grade on the final draft.

Sheila Lalwani
ENGL393

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
04/26/2018

If you have a choice between taking Shelia's class and being attacked by a rabid raccoon, you'll probably have a better time and a better chance of success taking on the raccoon. She teaches nothing, most of the class is annoying busy work, and is a horrendously terrible communicator. On multiple occasions she has been unable to answer even basic questions by email, and often deducts large amounts of points from your writing without explaining why. She also provides rubrics but refuses to use them. When you peer review other students, she makes you research their topics and give them sources to include in their paper - literally doing their work for them. It's really hard to do well in her class but grades are inflated for the low end, so everyone is pushed toward a mediocre grade. This course was more time consuming than the overwhelming majority of my engineering classes, even though the material is much easier, because she assigns so much unnecessary work.