Sophia English Composition II Experience

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Hi,

I wanted to share my thoughts on this course. 

I know some folks here recommended to complete it through SDC or CLEP due to the difficulty and grading timeframes but since I had a bunch of other courses to complete, I didn't mind waiting. 

• I'll preface by saying I'm 35 years old and have never done a college level course until I started this journey a little over a month ago. 
  
• 7 touchstones: Most of these touchstones were to prepare for the draft and revision essay at the end (outline, research, etc.). There was one touchstone where you had to read two dress code articles and write an essay, took me like 2 hours tops to complete. 
  
• I didn't find these touchstones to be too difficult. I actually used a topic/outline from an essay from another course (US Govt.) so that made it easier. The most challenging part for me was the research, citations and references as I've never done this before. 
  
• Total time was 19 days including the weekends. Took 1-3 business days for grading, never over 3 days. A few times I maxed out on the 2 open courses allowed by Sophia while waiting for grading but a quick chat with customer service and they opened a 3rd course for me. 
  
• All in all, I estimate about 10 hours of work.
  

Would I recommend? If you're not in a rush like me and have other Sophia course to do, then yes. If you're trying to knock this requirement out fast, the other options are probably better.

I think what happened is in the summertime, everyone was doing Sophia and they got behind on grading. Things should be better now.