Sarah Pleydell | PlanetTerp

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Sarah Pleydell ENGL101H Expecting an A- milk 05/09/2013	For an ENGL101 class, I would avoid this teacher. She's a (sort of) nice lady who means well, I gave her an extra star, but that's the only reason why. This class is much more work than it's worth because Pleydell takes ENGL101 too seriously. At the beginning of the semester, you don't really know what you're getting yourself into, you only know that she expects that you work your butt off for an A. Her guidelines and expectations for assignments were always unclear; I never knew what I was supposed to be writing until I reread her assignment sheets multiple times. She changed the rubric all the time, which basically made it all the more confusing. She also doesn't take criticism very well... our grades were almost compromised because of this. This class had almost no foundation and nothing seemed to be set in stone, syllabus and all. I think she wanted to accommodate to our needs but it ended up just being a confusing class that had me doing more work than I ever wanted to for low-level English.
Sarah Pleydell ENGL101H Expecting an A- Anonymous 04/12/2013	I initially did not care for her, but as the semester went on I liked her more and more. She can be a difficult grader, and sometimes her expectations are unclear. She also teaches material that interests her, and may not exactly be best for the class. That being said, she is a great person and very approachable. She is great for conferences and definitely helped me to improve my writing ability.
Sarah Pleydell ENGL101H Expecting a B+ Anonymous 01/08/2013	Although I didn't love this class, it did help me with my college-level writing. The whole class is focused around writing your final paper, which is sort of a compilation of the three papers you write before that (all on the same topic). Pick a topic you're really interested in because it gets so boring after the second paper... There's also a group project on rhetoric that my group and I had no idea what we were doing with. Pleydell doesn't give you clear instructions to what she wants (at least they weren't clear to me) so you spend a lot of time confused, trying to figure out what she wants in this paper or project. It wasn't the worst class, but not the best either.
Sarah Pleydell ENGL101H Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/01/2012	As a disclaimer, I didn't really click with Professor Pleydell so this isnt't the most unbiased review. That said, I wouldn't recommend her class because I don't think she does a great job of communicating her expectations and what we're supposed to be doing - I often had the problem of going to her with a simple question and coming back from the conversation more confused than I was to begin with - and a lot of students I talked to from the class shared this feeling. She's a nice enough person and really tries to help, but I didn't ever understand what was going on in this class so I wouldn't recommend it to those who can avoid it.

Sarah Pleydell
ENGL101H

Expecting an A-
milk
05/09/2013

For an ENGL101 class, I would avoid this teacher. She's a (sort of) nice lady who means well, I gave her an extra star, but that's the only reason why. This class is much more work than it's worth because Pleydell takes ENGL101 too seriously. At the beginning of the semester, you don't really know what you're getting yourself into, you only know that she expects that you work your butt off for an A. Her guidelines and expectations for assignments were always unclear; I never knew what I was supposed to be writing until I reread her assignment sheets multiple times. She changed the rubric all the time, which basically made it all the more confusing. She also doesn't take criticism very well... our grades were almost compromised because of this. This class had almost no foundation and nothing seemed to be set in stone, syllabus and all. I think she wanted to accommodate to our needs but it ended up just being a confusing class that had me doing more work than I ever wanted to for low-level English.

Sarah Pleydell
ENGL101H

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
04/12/2013

I initially did not care for her, but as the semester went on I liked her more and more. She can be a difficult grader, and sometimes her expectations are unclear. She also teaches material that interests her, and may not exactly be best for the class. That being said, she is a great person and very approachable. She is great for conferences and definitely helped me to improve my writing ability.

Sarah Pleydell
ENGL101H

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
01/08/2013

Although I didn't love this class, it did help me with my college-level writing. The whole class is focused around writing your final paper, which is sort of a compilation of the three papers you write before that (all on the same topic). Pick a topic you're really interested in because it gets so boring after the second paper... There's also a group project on rhetoric that my group and I had no idea what we were doing with. Pleydell doesn't give you clear instructions to what she wants (at least they weren't clear to me) so you spend a lot of time confused, trying to figure out what she wants in this paper or project. It wasn't the worst class, but not the best either.

Sarah Pleydell
ENGL101H

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/01/2012

As a disclaimer, I didn't really click with Professor Pleydell so this isnt't the most unbiased review. That said, I wouldn't recommend her class because I don't think she does a great job of communicating her expectations and what we're supposed to be doing - I often had the problem of going to her with a simple question and coming back from the conversation more confused than I was to begin with - and a lot of students I talked to from the class shared this feeling. She's a nice enough person and really tries to help, but I didn't ever understand what was going on in this class so I wouldn't recommend it to those who can avoid it.