Reviews of professor Andre Lapalme

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Some peers say he's "too hard" but I say they're "just too lazy to either read or come to class."  If you take the time to read, you learn not only about the stories but also how to write.  Best college class ever.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He assigns too much work at a time and does not care about anything but you getting your work done for his class. He uses Turn It In for every assignment and claims that you are using AI even if you are writing your papers. He is very specific about how he wants assignments done and will give you a 0 if it is not completed exactly how he wants it.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Willing to help out during office hours; explained the thesis and topic sentence connection in a way that made sense.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Insanely hard grader. Marked off on things my past teachers never have but never actually lectured on writing (just poems and other reading material).

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Acted like his class was the only one that mattered, and made us write so many essays along with tons of class work and homework. Would not recommend!!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Extremely derogatory, condescending, BS grading criteria. He will literally grade your essays based off of his own opinion. Nobody ever makes an A. Had to report him in the middle of the course for disrespectful communication and inappropriate comments. Withdrew.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Prepare to write constantly. He will assign things online and not mention them in class. Very harsh grader but provided absolutely zero advice for how to improve or what his standards for grading were. When asked by a student to cover MLA format, he posted the URL to Purdue on Canvas and told us we were responsible for learning it in our own time.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This professor is just awful! He assigns way too many assignments without barely ever teaching a thing. He only reads poetry and talks about stories. He has taught us more about his obsession with food and his cats than he has writing, even though this is a writing class. He does not have a clear grading method and offers no feedback. Do not take!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
the workload was insane and you could only work on essays in class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
DO NOT TAKE! I have never had such a horrible teacher before. Clearly doesn't care about his students, gives student's way too much work for even 2 people to do. If you have a life outside of this class you basically run the risk of failure. He doesn't teach at all and his grading system is horrible.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
DO NOT TAKE!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He graded very hard, students that normally do well in English were struggling. Didn't seem to care about students that needed help; suggesting that everyone see a tutor/pay for Grammarly plus. Marks off points for things such as word choice, sentences not being "bold", and boring punctuation, even if the grammatical structure is correct.