Reviews of professor Lauren McConnell

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lauren McConnell is a great teacher and awesome choice for Expos. She is very caring and is a fair grader. I definitely feel as though I have grown as a writer and had nothing but a good experience in Expos, contrary to the horror stories that I have heard about the course. Highly recommend!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I had a great experience in her class despite other reviews. She really wants you to do well and is a caring professor.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
So basically it is no surprise that the only way to do well in expos is to know what your professor wants. To do this, you definitely should go to office hours HOWEVER McConnell ALWAYS cancels office hours literally because she doesn't want to commute. It's a little frustrating because she decides to cancel office hours during the time paper 4/5.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
IF YOU ARE TAKING EXPOS DONT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR! I can assure you, you will regret it. This Professor gave excuses a few hours before classes on her absences and the classes were at 8:30 am which gives us no time to prep. Her excuses would make zero logical sense and she took a leave of absence half way through our semester. She doesnt teach!!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
a lot of work and does not tell you what you are supposed to do on an assignment

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She was a good professor, but she will not advocate for your final grade. I talked to multiple people and it was the same result: we had more B's than C's for our expos grades but our final grade was a C. Despite appealing multiple times, nothing changed. This is not the norm; choose a professor that cares about your interests.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
In the second half of the sem she canceled class and eliminated the 1 office hour 5 times. She also said she was "overwhelmed" for our third paper and made another professor grade our work. She noticed our concern and offered to regrade it but didn't. Even at the end, she showed no accountability. I truly hope no one takes this class intentionally

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Textbook is not mandatory since she gives you pdfs of all the readings which is very useful. Expos is by no means an easy class and this is from someone who hates writing with a passion, but she truly does care and if you ask her questions and do your assignments on time you should do decently well or at least pass.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Cancels in-person class 95% of the time, always a different excuse. Finished this? Okay now do these peer reviews (which are so stupid btw) by midnight of the same day, next 1200 word paper due 1.5 days from now! relies on a book for assignment info that conflicts with what she wants. But still, isn't as bad as these reviews make it seem...