Wilkinson, Heidi  

I loved Ms. Wilkinson! She always had a positive attitude and very understanding. She has alot of patiences, and can easily identfy your problem in wrting and tell you how to change it and your writing will improve like that! Very flexable and willing to help! Loves to teach and wants you participate in class! Missing class is not acceptable because you need to know the material for the next class. Homework isn't hard at all, the reading is ok, only one book and start that as soon as possible. No test on the book, just you and a partner go over the questions and class discussion. No test a couple of paragraphs once a week and extra credit if you need it. Turn in everything on time and free writing everyday the first 10mins of class don't be late.

THIS TEACHER IS BY FAR THE BEST TEACHER HERE IN CALPOLY. She is very enthusiastic and very outgoing. She makes first year in college fun. Her lectures are very clear. You think that you are not learning in the class, but in the end, you find yourself using the material she presented earlier in the school year. get this people, I HAD THE THIRD PRIORITY TO REGISTER FOR CLASSES THIS SPRING QUARTER, BUT I COULDNT GET HER AS MY TEACHER BECAUSE SHE WAS THE FIRST TEACHER TO GET FULL. IT SUCKS, BUT TAKE her.

alright just so you know...this lady is a serious feminist...for the summer quarter we watched videos, responded to them, and then wrote inclass essays about them...then we had three out-of-class essays on top of that..all in just five weeks... then you also have to keep a "summary and response" journal on your out of class reading...in short, TONS of busy work and she isn't willing to help you with your writing techniques..she brushes you off onto the writing labs

While she is an interesting and engaging professor, there are a number of flaws in her class that should be watched out for in the future. We watched movies and did summary/responses on them, which I personally thought was a lot more worthwhile than having to read 3 or 4 books for the quarter. Her young and spunky attitude is appropriate most of the time, as we can more easily relate to in-class discussions. However, there is no denying that she is an ardent feminist. Several peaceful discussions were ruined by her rolling out the big guns of gender roles and effectively making the whole class feel silent and awkward. In the long run, this didn't affect the class too much, however.

I'm a Jumpstart freshman student, so I'm still new to the college atmosphere and workload. This 5-week session was for the most part fun, and I don't have any problems recommending it. Here is my summary and response of this class...(HEHE) We watched a movie every week and were asked to write a 1 page summary and response on them. In addition, a daily journal with summary and responses of current events was to be kept. Finally, an essay of any topic was assigned every two weeks. In class, she taught writing style as well as grammer. It's hard to say whether this class was busy work (like others have mentioned), because it's hard to improve your writing without writing. So, I'm not going to comment on that. She had an energetic attitude, and she honestly tried to vary the activities and teach through a variety of methods - she was successful at both. The one fault that everybody has mentioned, her strong female views, is something I found difficult to deal with as well. It left the class speechless, and I'm not sure whether the girls exactly agreed with her parade of opinion. Either way, it sort've left a sour aftertaste to a class that was overall well taught and fun to attend!

Ms. Wilkinson is a young, enthusiastic professor whom I found to be very inspiring. I think Engish is a boring subject, but she went out of her way to make the class interesting. I had no problem getting up early to attend her 8:00 am class. The workload was rather large, but it wasn't unbearable. The only problem I had with this class was that she had a very specific style of writting that I found hard to follow. Other than that, the class was great and I would definately recomend it.

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Consider Ms. Wilkinson for English. Though she grades tough, and you must write according to her (very) specific style, the class is totally manageable. The class started at 8:10 and I never had a problem getting there. Instead of reading books during the 5-week course, we watched movies. She's really young (with feminist views!) and makes class intetresting. The work load is somewhat heavy (pretty much 1 paper a week), but as long as you budget your time you won't be too stressed. I definitely reccommend taking her class.

I worked my butt off in this class and had the highest grade in class throughout the quarter. I always went to her office hours whenever I got a B. She is not very good at explaining how we could improve our essays. She just wrote a grade at the top of our essays with no commentary whatsoever. She would then tell people that she would not tell them what was wrong until a couple days later so we would have time to think about it and "cool off". To top it off I was expecting an A in the class and instead got a B. She refused to talk to her freshmen until we got back from the summer. What's up with that???!!!!!! Do not take her at all.

She is a very good teacher. She is very young and tries to be hip. I had her for Jump Start so we did not read any books and we watched a movie every monday. The way that she grades essays was very wierd. If you want to take a great class that you will have fun in take her class.

this was the best english class that i have ever taken in my life. it actually made me LIKE english. but, i was very bitter at the fact that i got a B. i got an A (90%) on both my last essays and i still got a B in the class. this made me so mad. for the final essay-everyone wrote on really easy topics. she did put into account that my topic was hard when she graded my essay, but it obviously didn't help my grade. she's a very outgoing teacher, and it actually made me want to go to the 7am english class. there's 3 take home essays, three in class essays, and some random work here and there. i don't think anyone did very well in that class.

First of all, don't take this class at 7am four days a week. It will definitely kill you. You have 3 essays to turn in total and I think about 2 inclass essays (its been awhile). The book is necessary because inclass essays come from the book but we did go over most of the facts from the stories in the book before the inclass essay. The book is really boring and nobody ever read the stories so she was pretty pissed. For you guys, when she gets into the chapter about sexism, SHUT UR MOUTH!!! Overall: stupid and boring class. Almost impossible to get an A. Just be happy with a B. Didn't learn anything either. My writing skills are the same.

Ms. Wilkinson was an amazing teacher. We did a lot of different activities that made the class more exciting. She was always helpful in her office hours and took as much time as it took for you to get the material. There isn't much reading but there is a one page paper that doesn't take you longer than a half hour to complete. Overall, she was a fun, smart, cool teacher.

She was alright. Basically, the class consisted of 3 in-class essays (2-3 pages written), 3 out of class essays (500-800 words), and 7 summary and response papers (1 page each) which were done on essays we read on a weekly basis. I don't enjoy English and this class definitely did not change that. I don't really believe my writing improved at all either. Basically, it's a GE you have to take, so in that sense, it was just an average class.

Wilkinson is a very good professor. I learned a lot in her class, and her grading was always very fair. She is a nice person outside of class, and she is always willing to help her students. She assigns a lot of essays, and it seems that I was always working on one. Her essays are always open ended, and the writer is able to choose any topic to write on. By the end I felt as though I could write a well developed paper. It is difficult to receive an A, but its not out of reach if you are willing to work hard, consult with her outside of class, and put in an effort to show up and be prepared. I reccomend taking her class if possible!

Wilkinson is a great teacher. She is personal with her students, makes plenty of time outside of class to help, and is fun to be around. Lectures with notes are few and far between, the time spent in class is discussion oriented, and she gives plenty of room for improvement with writing skills. She chooses a book of essayists to read each week. Generally, these readings are very short and some are even enjoyable. If you try hard and apply her knowledge of writing into your own you will no doubt become a better, more suscinct, and more descriptive writer. Her grade is devised of one thousand points throughout the semester. She does not have a final, but an essay due before finals week which consists of 300 points of the total grade. She has plenty of opportunites with smaller assignments to gain back lost points with bigger essays. She has three outside essays and three in-class essays. Her essays are usually between 2 and 3 pages length. There are also no tests.

I LOVE HER! I HATE ENGLISH! Ms. Wilkinson made me want to show up for class by making english fun. She has a fresh outlook on things and never bogs the class down with boring english terms. Sometimes she can get off on her latin kick, but that's your chance to catch a quick nap. I loved having her read my papers and critique them. Overall she changed my outlook on English! Thank You Heidi!

take her! you wont regret it. i most definitely recommend her!

this teacher, in retrospect taught me nothing except for the SEE paragraph and classical rhetoric, which i believe all the teachers are supposed to teach you in 134. she is very opinionated so if you decide to write about something she doesn't believe in or she doesn't even like just pray you've used some big words and PERFECT grammar. be careful of any remark you make in class or doing bad on something because she will make it apparent to the entire class. don't even think about tapping a pencil cause you'll get a verbal battering well beyond one of my mom's during menstruation. JUST TAKE MANNESS. in all honesty it's an easy class if you just write about what she wants to hear, ART and WOMEN . i'm beyond serious about that, she eats it up. her quizzes are way easy, grammar questions hardly ever came up on a quiz, i'll admit i know little about grammar but how much grammar does a poly technical major need. just do the little readings for the quiz and you should do well on them. in class essays we usually write about a reading in our book, just pick one about art and write half way decent and you should do ok. she grades easy on in class essays but she grades like a mother on the out of class essays so don't make the mistake i did thinking she's an easy grader, cause she's not.

She was alright, but as in most 134 classes, the grading structure was insnane. There are 3 essays and you can write about whatever you want. Each essay becomes worth more as the quarter progresses. Here is where everyone faulted... Each student wrote about their most passionate topic right off the bat. We all got As or Bs. Someone even got a 100. But as you go, the essays are harder to write because you already wrote your best paper. So, as they get worth more, you get lower grades too. She doesn't teach enough about how to improve your writing much. If I wrote my essays in a different order, I am confident I would have received an A. I hope that made sense. But she wasn't that bad, but I'd check Polyratings for a better professor.

She's so kind and thoughtful. She has a positive attitude to her students. She's a coffee addict but it just helps her enthusiam. She tries to keep a certain load of work for students. There's a lot of reading, but its an english course and reading helps strengthen your writing skills. She is always willing to help if you go to her office hours. For me, I had a lot of writing problems and she was always willing to take her time to help me even when she got frustrated with me for not going to her office hours, she stays positive and helped me all the way. I'm glad she was my english teacher. So take her!

This woman is a very cute, bubbly character. I enjoyed every single lecture. She likes to tell stories and frequently had the whole class in laughter (especially when she slipped the f*ck word into her stories). She is so great. If you don't get an A you are clearly stupid because she is so detailed in explaining the requirements for assignments. She is really helpful and happy to make accomodations for office hours. I highly recommend her!

She's liberal and doesn't like hiding it. She enjoys having classroom discussions about politics and other social issues. This provides relief from a very dry subject material. The class consists of 3 in-class essays, 3 out-of-class essays, and 3 write-ups on movies or essays read in class. Also, weekly quizzes and random participation points are included. Very straight forward grading scale with points adding up to 1000. All out-of class essays are on whatever you want to write about but it's more difficult than you'd think. She grades a little tougher than most I'd assume but is definietly consistent and will reward you for trying a tougher topic. It's a fun class overall.

Very understanding teacher. Not tons of material. She is a good teacher and has a dorky sense of humor, but thats better than a teacher that doesn't have any sense of humor at all.

good teacher, helpful during office hours. seems very intimidating, but nice during conferences- sometimes gets moody, but dont take it personally. kind of a hard grader.

heidi is really nice and down to earth. she claims she is not baised but shes feminist liberal in the inside. she talks to you and if u nice and she likes you she will help you out with stuff. bottom line really good teacher, get her.

Professor Wilkinson is very nice, and very helpful if you go to her office hours. Though I am not one to enjoy english much, this cass was very bearable. She is very understanding and helpful. I would reccomend her.

Bottom line, she is amazing. I learned more with her in 1/2 a quarter then I did in 4 years of high school. Im an engineer and writing has never been my strong suit. The first essay I turned in I got a D and my writting voice improved so much that I ended up with an A- in the class 2 papers later. There are three papers and you can write about whatever you want. She definitely appreciates passion. She grades a little hard, but once you figure out what she is looking for, your fine. The writing workshop helps a lot and she is very helpful in office hours. She also lets you rewrite papers for better grades. She has a quirky sense of humor that I loved. I would definitely recommend her to anyone.

I really enjoyed her class, but I'm a Lib Arts major, so I tend to enjoy Lib Arts classes. Any non-English-class-liking people, I recommend Ms. Wilkinson to you because she is probably one of the least painful options for an English teacher that you have.

Wilkinson was a great teacher. Her "out there" personality helped to keep the class interesting. This is one class I've had that I actually enjoyed going to. The homework is not bad at all. We had 6 SRs (summary and response) where you analyze a newspaper article, 1 Claim of Policy Paper (analyzing the argument for or against a "hot topic"), and 1 research paper (a long claim of policy paper). We had a group project that wasn't bad at all and was actually a lot of fun. I strongly recommend Wilkinson for any English class.

Wilkinson is awesome. This is my second English class with her, and I'd take her again. She is willing to help and grades fairly. There is a lot of work, but nothing you wouldn't expect, and you alwasy have enough time to do the assignments. Visit her at her office hours and get to know her, she is such a cool professor.

Wilkinson is a decent teacher. She is easily impressed and has low standards, most likely because the majority of students in this class are not English majors. The same with all 145 classes, the entire quarter is preparing you for one major essay. While at first it is intimidating to hear you have to write a 7 pages paper for a GE class, she organizes it so throughout the entire quarter you are working towards the end goal. When it is time to write the paper, you already have more than half finished and corrected and the bibliography done. There are no tests at all. She assigns short assignments reviewing different editorials. I did well, but other didn't. Basically, follow the directions verbatim, and throw in some big words. She does play favorites, so if you say hi to her everyday and sit in the front, most likely you will be graded nicer. As I am an English major, I was somewhat disappointed because I didn't really learn anything, but it's an easy A. If you want an easy English 145 class, I recommend Wilkinson. Oh, and I survived very well without buying the assigned book.

She's really nice most of the time, and comes off really bitchy some of the time. I liked her class cause she tried to make it fun and interesting and interactive. We talked about a lot of political issues, and while she says she's not really liberal, she spouts off her political opinions on a regular basis, so I dunno... It's also not a hard class, the writing is easy. The 8-10 pg. research paper at the end is in place of a final, so no final, and she makes the due dates so that half the paper is due and then the other half like two weeks later, so you really don't kill yourself at all doing it. As long as you don't mind opinionated teachers, she's fun most of the time. Take her. Watch out when she's in a bad mood though.

This class was interesting and not incredibly difficult. Every day, she would have us writing in journals and participating in class discussions, so it was a great place to develop one's personal perspective. She is very straightforward in her assignment explanations and is always willing to help at her office hours. She is a funny person, and does not shy away from picking at weak arguments/statements during class discussions. Overall, I learned a lot from the class and after getting to know her by going to a few of her office hours, I found her to be a great person as well. I highly recommend this professor.

Professor Wilkinson was an awesome teacher. The class may seem scary because you have to complete an 8-10 page research paper due at the end of the quarter. However, Heidi breaks this up in to several parts including an outline and the 1st 4 pages due several weeks before the whole thing is due. Class discussions were always interesting and I really enjoyed going to her class everyday. Take this professor any chance you get, you wont regret it.

Heidi is an amazing teacher. You won't learn a ton in English 145 no matter what teacher you take, but if you have questions for about your papers or assignments, go to her office hours and ask because she can help you on whatever you are confused about. She is amazingly nice, due dates are not final, she gives extensions on the final paper and you have second chances to redo homework assignments you bomb. Quizzes are easy if you go to class and read over your notes before hand. She's fun, she has a great sense of humor, and a great attitude. Heidi never came to class upset and never took anything out on students, she is a fair grader and a great teacher. Take her, you will not regret it. The work is not overbearing, just don't wait til last minute on your research paper, but even if you do you will do fine in this class. Talk in class and don't be ignorant because she will call you out if you make a stupid argument.

lots of unnecessary homework so if youre a stoner dont take this class cause there are easier ones out there