LIB495 Catherine Peck

[bartlebuck]

If the Zoom meetings are optional, but the prof says you will be hindered if you don't participate, there is some meaning there. If you trust the prof, you will be hindered. Students on the verge of enrolling in her class should be aware of that. If you want to ignore a prof who tells you failing to participate will hinder you, that is your choice. You can enroll in it. Others who read here may not like that. The info is provided to help others choose.

As for Peck, the rubrics and course objectives exist for a reason. Professors can't make up their own requirements for courses. So if a professor marks according to some "rubric" of their own, you can and should absolutely take it up the ladder if they don't adjust the grade.  What Peck did was fail to see that I had answered all the questions, and then when I pointed it out she admitted that she overlooked it, that she failed to see it. This isn't a matter of dispute. She saw her mistake. But what did she do? Fix it? No. She said it was my fault that she failed to see that I had answered the questions because in this research paper course, I did not use the personal pronoun "I".... which is not a requirement of the assignments, and is in fact, contrary to the text, contrary to the lesson and purpose of the course.  My post to others here are not because I'm a butt hurt loser who can't take correction. My post is about a butt hurt professor who can't take correction. Some students won't care, but some will. This is a public service message and each can decide for themselves.

Also, it doesn't matter how many courses either of us have completed at TESU. I have taken more than you, but if in your next course you encounter a prof who wants to phone you every night when you are already asleep (because you are a shift worker), my having more courses doesn't discount your experience. For a student who doesn't want to deal with ego out of control, or late night calls, etc al of this information is useful.

"Hindered," I take to mean that you will be left on your own to figure things out.  I know from that course that the book doesn't explain things in detail.  I don't take it to mean that the professor will dock you points on your grade for not attending the meetings.

Academic writing is typically done in 3rd person.  So there is no "I" or "you" used.  However, sometimes even on forums, as strange as it sounds, they still want you to write in 3rd person.  I don't think she is butthurt.  She probably has lots of students and didn't want to bother with updating the comments/grade.

I'm saying that these professors' reviews seem like a small sample of what is to be expected in the course.  But, of course, if you end up making an A, then all this becomes irrelevant.

Should someone care more if a professor makes one mistake?  Or should they care more if they make an A in the course?

OK, you can interpret it however you like. Others may interpret it differently. I know I certainly do. It happened to me. I was there. You weren't but somehow you think you are an expert on it. That's interesting in itself.

I wrote in third person. She made a mistake, realized it, admitted it, and then said it happened because I did not write in first person.... which is not required. That's my point. 

Of course the final mark in any course is what matters, but the road there matters too because it's a long walk. I like to take that road with mentors who I trust. I would not recommend Peck to anyone as a trusted mentor based on my experience with her and for the reasons stated and explained in my post.