Sophia.org English Composition II -- Grader Experiences

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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.)

CW is who graded most of my papers. Absolutely miserable person. Contradicted themselves over and over. Made up goofy rules that don't exist anywhere and are not on the Purdue OWL sites they share. That person doesn't know APA references well at all.