English I at Straighterline (review)

[irnbru]

irnbru (or anyone that has taken English II):
I am currently taking English Comp. II, I have not completed any essays yet. Does English Comp II have the same problem as English I, in regards to the inconsistent grading of draft 1 and draft 2?
-Viv

Provided you follow the general 'five paragraph essay structure' I've posted elsewhere, English Comp II should be much easier than English Comp I. Obviously extend the structure for longer essays but I was regularly scoring 19s-21s once I realised the best requests to make when asking for drafts evaluations were for word choice and grammar rather than structural recommendations.

The course set novel, Shelley's Frankenstein, is both a good read and I think there is a significant exam worth 100 points.

Essentially, if a student takes the lessons learned from English Comp I and applies common sense to this course, they can fly through it.

Although I can still remember re-writing one of the very short, initial papers for English Comp I where, after amending my paper with the suggested improvements the final marker returned a 14/21 score with a snarky comment about an obvious theme of pantomine, overall the Straighterline English courses are excellent for developing generic paper-writing skills and clearing written-English credit requirements.