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Patrick Nelson
ENGL393 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/01/2025 |
Nelson is an easygoing professor. Those who leave negative reviews likely didn’t attend class regularly and get attendance points. If you show up, you will do well in the class. While he does occasionally vent about his job, it doesn’t impact the class—you can just tune it out. The coursework is very manageable: throughout the semester, we only had a resume assignment, an email, one discussion post, a lab report, a short instructional presentation, and a final report. He grades leniently, and as long as you complete the assignments on time, you will get an A. He grades at the end of the semester so he doesn't review your work much, if you write enough you will get an A. Compared to the workload in other classes, this one was significantly lighter and required minimum effort. He’s also flexible—he allowed us to skip class if we had exams in other courses. Overall, he’s a chill. |
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Patrick Nelson
ENGL393 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/01/2025 |
Nelson is an easygoing professor. Those who leave negative reviews likely didn’t attend class regularly and receive attendance points. If he see's you in class, you will do well. While he does occasionally vent about his job, it doesn’t impact the class—you can just tune it out. The coursework is very manageable: throughout the semester, we had a resume assignment, an email, one discussion post, a lab report, a short instructional presentation, and a final report. He grades leniently, and as long as you complete the assignments on time, you will get an A, he grades everything at the end of the semester and likely doesn't review too in depth especially if you write a lot. Compared to the workload in other classes, this one was significantly lighter. I put in minimal effort and still earned an A. He’s also flexible—he allowed us to skip class if we had exams in other courses. Overall, he’s a chill. |
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Patrick Nelson
Anonymous 04/30/2025 |
Very disorganized and highly egoistic. He says he drinks wine every night in class which leads to him forgetting about work. Then he actually forgets to post assignments and if you try to challenge his grade he'll never reply or put you down. Refuses to acknowledge his own mistake in a 1 on 1 setting. Haven't met a more self absorbed and egoistic professor ever. Gives you 50/100 for minor mistakes like wtf? |
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Patrick Nelson
ENGL393 Expecting an A- Anonymous 04/30/2025 |
Very disorganized and has a huge ego. Says he drinks wine every night in class and then forgets to post assignments on time. If you try to challenge his grade he'll never reply or he'll put you down. Haven't met a more egoistic and self absorbed professor ever. |
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Patrick Nelson
ENGL393 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/23/2024 |
Disorganized, played favorites, doesn't justify huge grade drops for small mistakes. Class depends entirely on his mood and he didn't grade most of the major assignments until the last day of the semester. |
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Patrick Nelson
ENGL393 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/23/2024 |
He sucks. Always complaining about his other job (if you can't handle both jobs quit one?) and is very disorganized. Not understanding at all, which is very ironic given how disorganized and slow he is at grading. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. |
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Patrick Nelson
Expecting a B Anonymous 12/21/2024 |
TLDR: Rude, big ego, confusing/infuriating instructions - always rude in emails. Would randomly talk about his family in class and have anger outbursts over simple things. - copies the instructions from past assignments though he changes the requirements. has expectations on assignments and won't tell you about them, leading to grades being docked. grades slowly, collects them til the end of the semester. if you fight for your points, he won't regrade because he doesn't want to, is lazy. will pull everything to not regrade things when it's his fault initially. |
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Patrick Nelson
ENGL393 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/20/2024 |
Disorganized, plays favorites, doesn't update slides, slides are confusing, doesn't provide regular updates on assignments and grades, regularly came into class moody, angry, late, and complained about personal problems. Canceled class regularly with little to no heads up and yet made it clear that if we missed class we would be heavily penalized. Assignments are not useful towards actual professional writing and work more as a high school "type this many words" assignments. If he doesn't like you, you will not do well. Do not take if you want to maintain your sanity. |
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Patrick Nelson
ENGL393 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/13/2024 |
He never grades things on time and there were assignments that just were not announced but we were still expected to do them. However, these assignments had different instructions on canvas then what he wanted and I am pretty sure he wanted us to read his mind or something. When we tried to email and ask questions, he was often very rude. He did end class early most nights and there were like two really fun classes which is why he is not at 1 star. Oh, also. The final is a 25 page final paper with a group. It is as hellish as it sounds. |
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Patrick Nelson
ENGL393 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/13/2024 |
He seems like a great guy and is very knowledgeable when it comes to working in the professional world but god if I had a nickel every time he walked into class saying how work put him in a bad mood I could pay off my tuition. He often forgets to upload assignments onto Canvas or even mention them in class. The directions on each assignment can be confusing and when people tried to email him asking for clarification he sent back really passive-aggressive emails. |
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Patrick Nelson
ENGL393 Anonymous 05/09/2024 |
A little weird and very disorganized. Will randomly extend assignments, forgets to open assignments, grades as slow as a snail, gives confusing instructions. He usually ended class early tho. Also had to guess which room he'd pick to be the classroom every time because he refused to use the assigned room. |
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Patrick Nelson
ENGL393 Anonymous 06/20/2023 |
just a mess. the previous post nailed it. |
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Patrick Nelson
ENGL393 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/22/2023 |
This class was generally a mess. Prof. Nelson would frequently announce assignments that were never actually opened on Canvas, and would arbitrarily cancel class. There were also long waits for grades on assignments. However, he seemed like a nice guy in class, and the assignments are generally not that difficult. |
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Patrick Nelson
ENGL393 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/29/2020 |
Prof. Patrick was fantastic! He was really accommodating and understanding during the virtual semester and made sure that we weren't being overwhelmed with material. His lectures were very short, concise, and entertaining while still getting the point across. I felt like I learned a lot about how to write better in his class. |
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Patrick Nelson
ENGL393 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/24/2020 |
great |