Stephen Mandell

School: Drexel University
Department: English
Location:Philadelphia, PA
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 Pros: Only a few assignments
Don't need the textbook
Very Educational
Cons: Hard grader
Loves perfect grammar
He knows what he is talking about, he can put you on the spot with questions. He is a hard grader, he is all about grammar, so make sure you can write perfectly otherwise for the most part you will get a B in the class. Myself and the people around me always got B's on everything, so if you are ok with that then he is great,but if you work hard and still get a B it kind of sucks so it is up to you.
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 Pros: Work is easy, grades fairly easily
Cons: He is very condescending, doesn't treat students with respect, doesn't use any online resources
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 Pros: Easy A for a course that should always be an easy A. Has plenty of constructive criticism, and as long as you improve over the 4 speech term, you'll get a good grade. Good sense of humor as well.
Cons: None?
Take him for COM 230 if you can.
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Cons: None.
Great course. Worth taking. Helpful. Focus on professional presentation.
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 He assigns easy work and grades unfairly difficultly. Copy the examples he gives and tweek them and you should be fine. Show up to class for the examples.
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 Pretty laid back and grades easy as hell. The only problem is he interrupts almost every time you say something that's not during a presentation. He does know a lot, but will sometimes make half-true statements into facts to make himself look more knowledgeable than you.
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 Really smart teacher, has an answer to any question about any topic on planet earth, he goes off on long tangents a lot but his stories are usually pretty interesting, his son started PINK vodka and talks about him a lot its pretty cool. He's always there for you before, during, and after class to talk about whatever. He kind of acts like he's your dad
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 Most of his teaching consists of ancedotes which revolve around how great he is and how much of a bigshot he is. He is extremely condescending to students and treats them like dumbies who know nothing. He never really tells you how to write memos, or proposals. He'll bring samples into class and hand them out and expect you to copy that format. You have to teach yourself everything.
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 just show up and present the 4 speeches. you get to choose the topics so its easy to just do it the night before and ramble on during the presentation. also very sarcastic, but its still funny. he also knows something about everything its pretty crazy. overall good guy
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 He's not bad. He grades pretty hard and gives a lot of work. Otherwise, the class isn't boring.
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 Let's put it this way. This guy spends his time stealing essays from books and magazines, throws them all together into some anthology and tacks his name on it. If one of the students did that it would be plagirism. Because he's a professor, it's called making big bucks ripping off people who think.
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 This teacher sucks the big one. Besides making money
off of other people's work, i.e., is boring overpriced anthology, I beats me why this man even bothers showing up. It sure isn't because he wants to be in the classroom. teacher.
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 4th worst teacher in as many years at Drexel. All I can say is he thinks hes better then you. Thats pretty much what you will learn in his class. if you can avoid him, if not transfer, and if you have to take him, just nod at what he says, dont express your ideas, because you are wrong and he will tell you.
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 This guy is pompous jerk. He must hate his students. Out of 30 students writing 3 papers a piece, no one received an A out of 90 papers. Does that say something about the students or the teacher. I got a B+ on all of my papers and each one said you improved alot. Well doesnt that say i should get an A- or an A. Oh and just because you wrote the Blair Reader doesnt mean your poop doesn't stink. Chode!

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