Spring 1 Session 2 -- What is YOURPace?

[sksandorff90]

The majority of my classes will be EDU this session.  I do have to take ENG 121 Information Literacy, which I am not looking forward to.  I heard about how easy it was and then was reading where a new professor has come in and it is much more difficult.  Anyone who has done that class with the latest prof is free to chime in and give me any and all tips.  Ready to get it all done and GRADUATE!!

I finished this class last term and was extremely frustrated with it. It shouldn't be as difficult as the professor made it. There are a few milestones that require APA citation, and the final is an annotated bibliography for a paper that you don't have to write. Should be simple enough, right? Your citations have to be 100% perfect. I've taken a class that focussed only on APA 7 citation previously, and used APA 7 at TESU with no problems. However, I struggled with this class because the professor kept saying my citations were incorrect and instead of telling me what I did wrong, would direct me to Purdue OWL. I had to take screencaps to send to her to prove that how I was citing was based on Purdue's APA 7 guidelines. She said my draft had MLA citations, and there were a few other frustrating comments that just didn't make sense to me. My cousin has a Doctorate in Education and looked over my final for me and helped me notice the tiny details in my citations that were incorrect. I passed the class, but the professor still said some of the citations were incorrect when it came to how the volume and issues were written. I still have no idea how they're wrong, but I passed the course so that's what matters.

My advice: seek outside eyes to look over your citations. Document the citation guide you reference and pay attention to every detail on your final citations.

My boyfriend did the same. The professor seems to confuse MLA and APA a lot. He had to go to me for help because he was so frustrated.

She kept telling him to go to Purdue Owl. He did it 100% identical to purdue owl and she still had issues with it. 

I'm wokring on my doctorate. I know how to do citations by now. 

She is a creative writing teacher that writes books about how crystals heal your body. She doesn't use citations in her professional work. She shouldn't be telling us how to do it, because, she doesn't know how to do it! 

Very frustrating class. I told my partner to go to JEssica about it.

I emailed Jessica about the class as well. For a class that should have taken only a day or two to complete, it was unnecessarily long and frustrating because of the professor. I'm at least a little bit relieved someone else had the same frustrations I did because I felt like I was going crazy trying to figure out what she was talking about!