Sophia.org English Composition II -- Grader Experiences

[Skoolie]

So glad this paper went much better for you! That Courtney person I had for all of my papers so far except 3.1 was brutal. She contradicted her/himself sooooo often. I now wish I had just taken this as a course at UMPI. I am pretty sure it would have been MUCH smoother. Live and learn!

The problem doesn't seem so much Sophia's English Composition II as much as this particular grader, CW.    I took the class to see what all the fuss was about & much to my chagrin, CW gave me a 0/10 on the touchstone outlining the thesis because according to her I had no thesis.  (Everything else on the rubric was perfect, though.)  Her feedback was that a thesis should state an argument and then show exactly three ways I intended to prove it.  I kept losing points to APA guidelines, and followed the purdue writing owl lab to a T.  I even got the feedback that a paragraph must be at least 5 sentences.   By the final touchstone, I was exhausted and honestly didn't care.   I had the tutor service proof it and they said it was fine.

She was my grader throughout even after I complained about the zero, and managed to eek out an A.  (I suppose for effort.)