Reviews of professor Laura Estill

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I loved having Laura Estill as a professor. She cares for her students and is so passionate about what she teaches. Her lectures are interesting and are relevant to the real-world. Make sure to keep up with her readings, they will show up on midterms/exams. I would definitely suggest taking her class, overall amazing professor!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
One of my harder classes, but also one of my best! She obviously loves what she does and brings that energy to the classroom. You will be expected to do readings and assignments, but the feedback is so helpful. Often it includes links or example of ways to improve. My writing has been significantly improved from this class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof Estill is really good at what she does, and you can see she cares deeply about her students. When going through her slides, she is incredibly clear and is easy to understand. I will say this course was hard and required attendance, discussion boards & essays, however, I believe this has well prepared me for writing papers in all of my classes.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Going off my last one, she is also not scared to tell her students in very blunt ways that their writing is not up to her standards. She has made me feel so self conscious about my writing to the point where i did not want to pass anything else in because I could not handle her harsh comments. I loved writing but after this class, she ruined that.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof Estill is very professional and reasonable. That being said, she expects you to put her class before all of your other classes. She is very smart and loves what she does, very passionate about english.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
she is is a very intelligent english professor, but she is not considerate of her students feelings or issues. she says her class should always come first even though she tells her students to never prioritize a class over another. i found her very hypocritical during her lectures and when you don't agree with her personal views, she take pointsoff

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This is a professor who has no understanding of what student centred learning is all about. She is very arrogant

She offers few assignments and takes forever to give assignments back, even 2 page response papers. Shorter and more frequent writing assignments with regular feedback would be far more helpful.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Estill was great. She has lots of energy and makes things interesting because she is so passionate. She marks sort of hard but not too hard and is very understanding because she truly wants you to improve. I recommend her class definitely! better then Jason Potts for sure.

I had her for ENGL205

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Estill is my favourite English prof at StFX! She is so caring, is clearly passionate about what she does, and she teaches in a way that is clear and easy to follow along. She truly believes in her students and wants to help them succeed. She is fair with grading and gives very detailed feedback on assignments!