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Clare Parsons ENGL394 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/11/2023	The class is an easy A and she would give us 100% on basically everything even if I handed it in like 4 days late. However, it does feel like a lot of work for an English class that's required. I don't really feel like I learned anything and just did a lot of busy work for nothing.
Clare Parsons ENGL394 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 04/25/2023	Clare parsons is a great professor, her assignments are easy and straightforward, and she replies to emails super quick
Clare Parsons ENGL394 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 04/25/2023	Great professor, easy and friendly
Clare Parsons ENGL394 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 04/25/2023	Goated, easy ass class, avg for assignments 88+
Clare Parsons ENGL394 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 04/25/2023	Don't know why she is so low in reviews, its a free A, all the bad reviews they got A's , all you need to know
Clare Parsons ENGL394 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 04/23/2023	Great professor, communicates quickly, and for all assignments, she encourages you to message her to ask about questions on assignment and she replies fast as hell
Clare Parsons ENGL394 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 04/08/2023	Dont know why she gets so much hate. Such an easy professor to take this class with. Its not possible to get lower then an A on each assignment as long as you follow the instructions.
Clare Parsons ENGL394 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/11/2018	As said below, you'll get an A but at a price. She doesn't know how to use Google Drive or ELMS, but insists those are the best mediums. She's bad at setting times to meet for the required conferences. Just overall unprofessional in communications - which makes me question why she's allowed to teach a professional writing class!
Clare Parsons ENGL394 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/13/2016	Alright, so you will probably get a good grade in this class, but it comes at a price. Clare Parsons is a very inappropriate professor. She requires you to follow her on social media, Instagram or Twitter or whatever her choice of the day is. She claims "that is the only good way of contacting me". I don't have any social media besides facebook, and I sure wasnt going to friend her there, so I got punished for it by her deducting points from my grade. That is one of the most inappropriate things a professor has ever done that I have witnessed throughout my college career. She make announcements every class about how she "tweeted something so cool yesterday" or some idiotic thing like that continuously trying to make students follow her. She also is extremely vague in all her assignments and stays vague if you ask questions, and deducts points if you don't have it exactly how she wants. She is absolutely terrible with technology. She was unable to make the projector work for all except maybe 2 class periods, her ELMS page is completely disorganized with her assigning work from, for example, Modules 3, 6, and 11 in a single class period. She takes forever to respond to any form of communication, except perhaps social media like I mentioned before. I am fairly sure that there are other professors that you can get a good grade with, and honestly I think I would have taken a B with any other professor just to not have had the miserable experience I had with her. DO NOT TAKE CLARE PARSONS!
Clare Parsons ENGL394 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/06/2014	Compared to other teachers for ENGL394 (from what I've heard from friends), Parsons is one of the better teachers to have. The content is relatively easy, there are only a few assignments, and the blended learning meant less class time. On the downside, I just really didn't like her as a teacher. She was really disorganized, I learned absolutely nothing about business writing from her. The only way I learned was by doing the assignment myself. I got the feeling she was thrust into business writing with no business knowledge whatsoever. Being a business major myself, I was thoroughly disappointed. She is nice and all, but she's just not a good teacher. As long as you can stand some boring classes/assignments, you'll be fine.
Clare Parsons ENGL394 Expecting an A- Anonymous 01/05/2013	I really don't understand these negative reviews. She's an extremely easy teacher for business writing. No textbook is required. No readings that we have to do write-ups on - my friend had a different teacher for business writing who made them read articles and write things about it. Parsons doesn't assign any homework. We have the same assignments as all other business writing classes (cover letter, resume, 2 memos, 15 page final paper, group project). The only groupwork that we had is a final presentation, but every professor assigns that. As far as the group practice work that another student mentioned, it's really not a big deal. We don't get graded on it. She'll just hand out a worksheet and in your group just come up with some bs to write down so you have something written. 1 of these worksheets per group. My class got let out 15-20 minutes every time. Every assignment that we have, she'll write on the board pretty much exactly how to outline it and what she wants to see. She's really nice and if you for some reason need help and go to her, she'd be more than willing to help. I put in a moderate amount of effort into all the assignments and ended up with an A-. Parsons is hands down one of the easiest business writing teachers. Try to get into her section!
Clare Parsons ENGL394 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/24/2012	Business writing as a class is irritating but Professor Parsons managed to make it worse. There is an annoying amount of groupwork where there really was no need for it, including tedious group 'practice' work for assignments which was basically designed to keep us from being dismissed from class 15 min after the start. She barely taught anything and demanded we follow a rigid and unfamiliar outline for simple assignments like the cover letter and resume. Her grading was extremely vague. As it has already been noted, her comments would be positive but she would make no comments as to why points were lost and wouldn't comment on the assignment when asked. Her samples and assignment sheets were unhelpful. Final project is a 15+ page business proposal based on research. This is supposed to be an easy but helpful course for juniors and seniors trying to fill a ridiculous requirement and it ended up being way too much work.
Clare Parsons ENGL394 Nick DiNardo 12/15/2011	I disagree pretty strongly with the first review. While Parsons is pretty nice and does let you out of class early, she offers absolutely NO guidance on assignments and has no specificity to her grading whatsoever. Her comments will all be positive, yet somehow you will get docked 20 points. She is also really vague and ambiguous in class, which doesn't offer much support either. Finally, some of her guidelines for writing directly contradict with what the business school teaches, which is very frustrating. Overall, I would say avoid
Clare Parsons ENGL394 Expecting an A- terpfan29 12/08/2007	Dr. Parsons is a very nice lady and a good professor for the much dreaded business writing. Look at her grades for starters. Much better than other professors. She is a fair grader and doesn't make things too challenging. Also she has you email your assignments to her so she grades it that way and replies with comments and a grade. Saves paper and gives you time to turn it in online instead. Our class was for some reason in a hall far away from Van Munching so she let us out early. Definitely take this class with Parsons if you can, and if you get her don't drop it.

Clare Parsons
ENGL394

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/11/2023

The class is an easy A and she would give us 100% on basically everything even if I handed it in like 4 days late. However, it does feel like a lot of work for an English class that's required. I don't really feel like I learned anything and just did a lot of busy work for nothing.

Clare Parsons
ENGL394

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
04/25/2023

Clare parsons is a great professor, her assignments are easy and straightforward, and she replies to emails super quick

Clare Parsons
ENGL394

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
04/25/2023

Great professor, easy and friendly

Clare Parsons
ENGL394

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
04/25/2023

Goated, easy ass class, avg for assignments 88+

Clare Parsons
ENGL394

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
04/25/2023

Don't know why she is so low in reviews, its a free A, all the bad reviews they got A's , all you need to know

Clare Parsons
ENGL394

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
04/23/2023

Great professor, communicates quickly, and for all assignments, she encourages you to message her to ask about questions on assignment and she replies fast as hell

Clare Parsons
ENGL394

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
04/08/2023

Dont know why she gets so much hate. Such an easy professor to take this class with. Its not possible to get lower then an A on each assignment as long as you follow the instructions.

Clare Parsons
ENGL394

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/11/2018

As said below, you'll get an A but at a price. She doesn't know how to use Google Drive or ELMS, but insists those are the best mediums. She's bad at setting times to meet for the required conferences. Just overall unprofessional in communications - which makes me question why she's allowed to teach a professional writing class!

Clare Parsons
ENGL394

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/13/2016

Alright, so you will probably get a good grade in this class, but it comes at a price. Clare Parsons is a very inappropriate professor. She requires you to follow her on social media, Instagram or Twitter or whatever her choice of the day is. She claims "that is the only good way of contacting me". I don't have any social media besides facebook, and I sure wasnt going to friend her there, so I got punished for it by her deducting points from my grade. That is one of the most inappropriate things a professor has ever done that I have witnessed throughout my college career. She make announcements every class about how she "tweeted something so cool yesterday" or some idiotic thing like that continuously trying to make students follow her. She also is extremely vague in all her assignments and stays vague if you ask questions, and deducts points if you don't have it exactly how she wants. She is absolutely terrible with technology. She was unable to make the projector work for all except maybe 2 class periods, her ELMS page is completely disorganized with her assigning work from, for example, Modules 3, 6, and 11 in a single class period. She takes forever to respond to any form of communication, except perhaps social media like I mentioned before. I am fairly sure that there are other professors that you can get a good grade with, and honestly I think I would have taken a B with any other professor just to not have had the miserable experience I had with her. DO NOT TAKE CLARE PARSONS!

Clare Parsons
ENGL394

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/06/2014

Compared to other teachers for ENGL394 (from what I've heard from friends), Parsons is one of the better teachers to have. The content is relatively easy, there are only a few assignments, and the blended learning meant less class time. On the downside, I just really didn't like her as a teacher. She was really disorganized, I learned absolutely nothing about business writing from her. The only way I learned was by doing the assignment myself. I got the feeling she was thrust into business writing with no business knowledge whatsoever. Being a business major myself, I was thoroughly disappointed. She is nice and all, but she's just not a good teacher. As long as you can stand some boring classes/assignments, you'll be fine.

Clare Parsons
ENGL394

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
01/05/2013

I really don't understand these negative reviews. She's an extremely easy teacher for business writing. No textbook is required. No readings that we have to do write-ups on - my friend had a different teacher for business writing who made them read articles and write things about it. Parsons doesn't assign any homework. We have the same assignments as all other business writing classes (cover letter, resume, 2 memos, 15 page final paper, group project). The only groupwork that we had is a final presentation, but every professor assigns that. As far as the group practice work that another student mentioned, it's really not a big deal. We don't get graded on it. She'll just hand out a worksheet and in your group just come up with some bs to write down so you have something written. 1 of these worksheets per group. My class got let out 15-20 minutes every time. Every assignment that we have, she'll write on the board pretty much exactly how to outline it and what she wants to see. She's really nice and if you for some reason need help and go to her, she'd be more than willing to help. I put in a moderate amount of effort into all the assignments and ended up with an A-. Parsons is hands down one of the easiest business writing teachers. Try to get into her section!

Clare Parsons
ENGL394

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/24/2012

Business writing as a class is irritating but Professor Parsons managed to make it worse. There is an annoying amount of groupwork where there really was no need for it, including tedious group 'practice' work for assignments which was basically designed to keep us from being dismissed from class 15 min after the start. She barely taught anything and demanded we follow a rigid and unfamiliar outline for simple assignments like the cover letter and resume. Her grading was extremely vague. As it has already been noted, her comments would be positive but she would make no comments as to why points were lost and wouldn't comment on the assignment when asked. Her samples and assignment sheets were unhelpful. Final project is a 15+ page business proposal based on research. This is supposed to be an easy but helpful course for juniors and seniors trying to fill a ridiculous requirement and it ended up being way too much work.

Clare Parsons
ENGL394

Nick DiNardo
12/15/2011

I disagree pretty strongly with the first review. While Parsons is pretty nice and does let you out of class early, she offers absolutely NO guidance on assignments and has no specificity to her grading whatsoever. Her comments will all be positive, yet somehow you will get docked 20 points. She is also really vague and ambiguous in class, which doesn't offer much support either. Finally, some of her guidelines for writing directly contradict with what the business school teaches, which is very frustrating. Overall, I would say avoid

Clare Parsons
ENGL394

Expecting an A-
terpfan29
12/08/2007

Dr. Parsons is a very nice lady and a good professor for the much dreaded business writing. Look at her grades for starters. Much better than other professors. She is a fair grader and doesn't make things too challenging. Also she has you email your assignments to her so she grades it that way and replies with comments and a grade. Saves paper and gives you time to turn it in online instead. Our class was for some reason in a hall far away from Van Munching so she let us out early. Definitely take this class with Parsons if you can, and if you get her don't drop it.