Reviews of professor James Daly

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Daly is light-hearted and has a good sense of humor, however, his class is the complete opposite. The workload is way too immense at the beginning of the semester and puts too much strain on freshmen. Additionally, essay docs are oftentimes too complicated or long to fully understand and homework assignments are way too plenty.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Daly is just fine. He gives way too much work at the beginning of the semester but he calms down just a little later on. I can't say he didn't make me a better writer, but I don't know if it was worth it. It was definitely too much work for a gen-ed and the attendance requirements are ridiculous. He is bad at jokes but he's a nice guy.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I did enjoy Daly's heavy focus on revision, and he overall made me a better writer, however, in order to even get an A on the final paper, you must complete extra work (writing appt. and library consults) and participate dramatically. He also assigns 6-9 hours of homework a week and is not flexible regarding absences or half completed assignments.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Really cool teacher and cares about students. He was flexible with homework assignments and was not a tough grader. Definitely recommend taking a class with Professor Daly.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Made my freshmen year a living hell with all the constant essays due every two days. What astonishes me is the fact that I had to put in more work for this class than any of my major classes, if you don't, he'll fail you. His essays are a major grade in his class. In class, he makes cringe jokes about his family and forces you to talk. DO NOT TAKE!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very tough class would not take again. Not a fun experience.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Daly is an extremely nice professor, the writing assignments are broken down into parts that are due over several weeks. There are 3 papers throughout the entire course, the reading can be difficult to understand but he will help you if you're confused, you have to do extra credit to get an A but if you do the work, you WILL get an A.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Daly is a very nice, easygoing person, but his class is extremely work heavy. There are 3 main essays with checkpoints that are not actually weighted into your grade. The only grades you receive are for the 3 essays. EXTREMELY time consuming and focuses mainly on revision. By far the most homework I have ever had in a class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Amazing guy! Definitely take this class. I was so worried about first year writing but prof Daly made it enjoyable. You will have to put some work in but in my opinion this is one of the best first year writing classes you can take. You will not regret taking this professor at all. Great guy and great professor