Straighterline English Comp

[22gunsonfire]

Fair to say I had a lot of the same experience with Comp II from SL. I had a paper flagged because in the Research letter I had it addressed to a dead president. I mean.. That was absolutely ridiculous. I have found that the graders that are contracted from turnitin are the weak link in the course. Some are awesome and provide their names along with great feedback. Then there are the ones who refuse to introduce themselves and provide you with shoddy workmanship.

Frankly, keep your head down and keep clicking. Most of the graders just care that you hit the wickets. Word counts, reference counts, paragraph counts, formatting. Good luck!

[Joeman200]

Here's something that happened to me.   Instructions on the pager were to NOT underline my thesis.

Got this feedback:


Well, whatever, I'll do what they say:

[RANSOMSOUL]

The grader comments side by side are awesome & I am sure painful!! The best advice I received with StraighterLine & WGU on performance assignments (writing), was to follow the rubric, don't take the feedback personally, revise if needed and get it back in asap. Interesting enough, StraighterLine Comp II of all the assignments had the most head-scratching feedbacks.

Perhaps there is a theme here

[geissingert]

@ransomsoul through Study.com which English did you take? What was the total cost? Straighterline isn’t the best for my child. Looking for guidance. I also want to know if technical writing will count as an English

[dfrecore]

@ransomsoul through Study.com which English did you take? What was the total cost? Straighterline isn’t the best for my child. Looking for guidance. I also want to know if technical writing will count as an English

Depends on where they want to go.  EC won't take English as an outside exam (CLEP, DSST), so SL is a good option (the UExcel exam is 6cr but $470).  TESU will take a lot, but not Tech Writing as English.  But they will take exams, or SL or Study.com.  COSC will take exams, as well as SL, and they will take Tech Writing as the 2nd writing requirement (after English Comp I).

I will say that if you struggle with English Comp, it will probably be difficult to do the Capstone at any school - so you may want to actually go through the process of the courses just to get going on the rest of the things you'll need to do later.

[RANSOMSOUL]

@ransomsoul through Study.com which English did you take? What was the total cost? Straighterline isn’t the best for my child. Looking for guidance. I also want to know if technical writing will count as an English

My daughters did English 104: College Composition I & English 105: College Composition II (one did 104 & the other 105 - both did an English Comp TECEP with Thomas Edison for the remaining 3 credits needed). They felt the Study.com prepared them well for their TECEP & that the TECEP was very doable once you understood the writing requirments for the exams. As for the price, Study.com was $200 and it covered two courses - they both chose an English Course & Business 102: Principles of Marketing for their second course). Study.com has some excellent Scholarship opportunities that you should look into as well for your son.

[richland]

I cannot finish this course. I have over 800 points in this class, and only the research draft and final left to complete. Based on a thread I read here, I thought I could write a fluff paper and finish the class. Nope. I wrote a really lengthy essay on special education, but they flagged it as a personal narrative and did not grade the paper. So, I spent a bazillion hours <slight exaggeration> trying to come up with something I could cite 4 sources on. I struggled for over a week just to come up with a topic. I finally came up with something, wrote it out and used citations. I submitted the paper on the 24th and it has taken them forever to grade. So, now it's been flagged again. This time due to low word count. If it takes a long as it did last time, I will not have this course finished by the time my account needs to renew. This is a DRAFT! Why can't they grade it low and suggest more content or something???

I could not recommend this class, or the english comp II class to anyone, based on this experience. For me, they refuse to grade a paper and give a low score - they just refuse to grade it. Getting a student advisor to allow me to resubmit, and then wait for grading again effectively drags out the course to the point they make another $99 on it. I'm so frustrated!

I had the same issue, I wish they just give me zero on the paper, so I can finish the course. 

[RANSOMSOUL]

I felt this way initially when taking this course. Since I had plenty of points, my first submission read 'Really enjoyed the course, Thank You!. They kindly emailed me asking for an actual paper. Since there were several papers for other courses (+ the countless for masters), I am glad there wasn't any shortcuts in the writing. English Comp should not break you - time may be limited but you are more than skilled enough to make it happen, Straighterline may even extend this final submission without charging a new month. Just request through email if it becomes a need for you.

[a2jc4life]

I haven't done SL's English Comp I, but I did English Comp II and the graders were a nightmare. I don't mind picky grading, but they're completely unclear/inconsistent so it's a crapshoot trying to figure out what they want. That's definitely the weak link.

[armstrongsubero]

Hmmm I did eng comp I and II and it was good. I got my essays marked within a day...it was good. Only SL math is terribly inconsistent...

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And in my view if its a good essay regardless of the grader you wont get any problems.