Sheryl Simons

School: Drexel University
Department: English
Location:Philadelphia, PA
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 Pros: She seems like she could have been a good teacher when she was younger.
Cons: She expects you to be able to read her mind,she doesn't use the regular system, and she doesn't like you to ask questions.
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Cons: See general comments.
She's just not a good teacher. She uses her students for public recognition. She gives us stupid assignments and then sends them to people. Her corrections are rarely helpful. She doesn't have a grading rubric in her head at all. I got a 75 on the first paper, then worked my way up to an 80, then handed in a horrible paper a few weeks later and got a 90. I feel like she just gives everyone sucky grades at the beginning and progressively gives better grades as the weeks go on just to make you feel like you're learning something.
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 Pros: gave less h.w. assignments that the other professors teaching English 101, which is good if you're already good at expository reading and writing
Cons: giving very few h.w. assignments meant that the students weren't prepared for the essays, she wasn't clear on her expectations
Simons is the only professor I've had at Drexel, that I disliked. She complained about our class being a hybrid class, and that we needed more time to develop our writing, but she hardly gave any small writing assignments. She also seemed to have something against technology. It seemed like for the first half of the term, she disliked everyone in the class. I'm happy I only saw her 1.5 hrs a week rather than 3hrs a week.
It's difficult to determine how she grades because she hardly writes any comments on the essays. I once got a paper back with a letter grade, and one comment on the paper, and she questioned something I wrote about myself! With hardly any comments on papers and not being clear on what she wanted to see in our essays, it's quite difficult to determine what to write to please her. I made sure not to sign up for her section for English 102 and English 103.
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 No, Just noo! Do not take her at any cost. She gives out homework assignments every other day (well I had her MWF) so lets make that everytime we meet for class. Assignments are usually 500 words or more in the beginning and then becomes 750+ towards the middle. Her grading is very biased and if she doesn't agree with what you have to say, she'll give you a low grade. Not to mention she loses papers as well and then blames us for lieing about giving them in. She gives midterms and finals on things that she didn't even say were going to be on the test. All in all at the end I still received an A-, but if you want a class that is an easy gpa booster, don't take her because I had to work hard to earn it.
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Cons: She's absolutely crazy. She is not understanding whatsoever, makes up grades based on whether she likes you or not, and has no email etiquette whatsoever.
DO NOT TAKE!
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 Pros: She's a published author
Cons: She's a bully
She's condescending
She's not fun to be around
Avoid her if you can.
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 Pros: -Probably doesn't know which way is up
Cons: -Condescending
-If you don't agree with her, you're wrong
-If you agree with her, but she doesn't want you to, she changes her own mind so that you are again, wrong
-Incredibly inconsistent grader
By far the worst professor I've ever had to be in the presence of. Taking her class is flat out a bad idea. Unless, of course, you think that having a professor who will lose your papers, grade you with reflection of her current mood, and treat you like a 5 year old is a good idea. A subservient-minded student may make it through her class though. Good luck if this sorry excuse for a professor's name happens to make it's way onto your schedule.
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 She really wants us to know current events but she has exams and the material is hard.
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 DO NOT TAKE!! she gives weekly writing assignments and only grades them when she feels like it. She literally makes up a number grade for every assignment depending on how well she likes you. She She often hobbles late to class and whatever comes out of her mouth is irrelevant or completely idiotic. I take shits smarter than her.
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 Everyone who says that Prof. Simons is a bad teacher you probably either showed up late to class, handed in your assignments late, and were not prepared. Hands down, Prof. Simons is a sweetheart. She knows what she is talking about. We had a few assignments (like 3 main papers, letter to the editor, etc.), but nothing overwhelming and that takes more than a half our tops to do. Grant it this class is an easy A (if you stick to the syllabus), but she really cares about her studednts and I would take her again any day.
*Side note* You can't expect easy A's all the time or you will never be prepared for the real world, but in this case as I stated if you stick to the syllabus you will get an A. The students who were in my class that did received an A soo....take Prof. Simons and don't listen to the ignorant rumors.
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 She is the worst teacher ive ever had. Its painful to sit through her lectures that focus on her "great career as highly successful journalist"-according to her.
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 the only difference between her and the toothless woman, who lives at 30th street train station is that the homeless woman is less condescending with her crazy rants.
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 She is undoubtedly the worst professor I have had thus far at Drexel and perhaps the worst teacher ever. She may be intelligent but she is a horrible teacher, who does not care about her students in the slightest. I agree with the several people below, who called her arrogant. I felt the class lacked free thought, because of her obsession with grammar. Is thinking on our own not what college is supposed to teach us? I received an A, played her games, but dreaded every second of her boring and worthless class.
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 I had her fall term freshman year for English 101. I'm a pretty strong student, respectful, observant and I received an A in her class.
However, in my opinion she is quite arrogant and is not a good teacher. In a class discussion she blatantly told one of my fellow students to, "be quiet and go check his sources," since he provided an opposing viewpoint to hers.
My favorite story is about her grading. My friend went to her for a writing tutor and Ms. Simons edited her paper. My friend (also a classmate in Ms. Simon's class) put the corrections in and handed it in to Ms. Simons. When my friend got her paper back, she saw that the very corrections Ms. Simons gave her were maked off when Ms. Simons was grading it! Ms. Simons corrected her own corrections!
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 I had to withdraw from the course. I did all the reading and attended class every day. She gave a pop quiz where fifty percent of the questions were about a reading she posted on WebCT and never mentioned in class. She is not easy to get in touch with. She hands out insane amount of assignments and seemed pretty arrogant. She gives midterms along with three major papers. She does not follow the syllabus, but is not very good at updating you on what is due the next week.
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 She is the worst english teacher i have ever had!!!! Doesnt care about students or anything. Brings an attitude in class. Teaches us the Rogerian argument when our next two papers was on toulmin style!! Wouldnt someone with half a brain teach you the stuff you will need immediately and then some extra stuff!!! We never even used the damn Rogerian Form of argument!! Oh sorry but we did!! IN THE F*****G MIDTERM!!!
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 I dont know what the mejority of these people asre talking about. SHE IS HORRIBLE. She never had time for us. Gave freaking midterms and finals!! SOmetimes she even refused to answer our questions. She just keeps on talking about her own success as a journalist. Everybody should just through out the sylabus on the 1st day becuase she never follows it.
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 I liked her at first, but she ended up being very arrogant and condesending. She was the only English 102 professor that I heard of giving midterms and finals. Her midterm had a grammatical error, which I pointed out to her. She did not like that too much and has hated me ever since. She lost a paper of mine (she found it), but has yet to give it back to me and it's been over a month. I would not advise taking her at all.
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 i had her for english 101, thought she was amazing...but she turned out to be a whole nother person in 102....stupid assignments, always preoccupied with other work...learned the same stuff over and over again...waste of time, AND SHE IS HAVING CLASS DURING FINALS WEEK....WHO DOES THAT????
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 Hardest class ever. Don't take simons for english 103. She kicks up the game and makes this class the hardest english class in all of drexel. Stay away.

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