Elizabeth Harwell

School: Cal Poly
Department: English
Location: San Luis Obispo, CA
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Pros: if you like high school she's perfect
she is very nice
Pretty easy class
Cons: loud overbearing and annoying
this is actually for ENG 110 but it's not available on here for some reason... Pretty easy to get a good grade if you aren't lazy. I am so I'm getting a B probably
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I have never had Liza in a college course but I had her in CPELI [Cal Poly English Language Institute] Which most students here don't know about. She is a great teacher and very active with her students. She is beyond sociable and you feel like you know this woman since a long time ago due to the simplicity of her personality. She literally will jump around the class if she starts feelings that her students are not responsive. She always laughs and smiles. She is always in a good mood to teach. However, she is tough when it coming to grading and testing because she wants you to learn from your mistakes and be as perfect as possible in you English which I totally understand.
I definitely recommend her. You will surely enjoy her class and most importantly, YOU WILL LEARN!
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Pros: Friendly
Fun
Class is never boring
Cons: Takes a long time to grade
I love this professor I took her for Eng 104 as well. She loves her job, she understand how hard things can be, talks about her family a lot. If class discussion is good she will let us continue. If she sees we are taking longer in other areas, she will cut the course. Readings are easy but I rarely read. She gives a lot of free writes and little in class assignments that are worth a couple points but they add up. Two in class essays and she graded them like the GWT. One paper at home and a 5-10 page research paper APA. She let us write our final essay at home instead of in class. Test was open book and she let us use some notes. Overall she loves her students but attendance is key.
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Pros: She is very caring, loving, and wants you to engage in conversation
Cons: She'll give pop quizzes if no one talks. There's also a lot of reading.
She's absolutely an amazing person. She wants you to grow as a writer and will do anything for you to do so.
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Pros: Great person! Super friendly and loves teaching. Makes all of the readings relate to us. Understand college life and is really caring if something comes up.
Cons: If no one is participating she will do a pop quiz.
Don't use your phone in class.
Only takes role if we do an assignment or pop quiz. One group project and you get to pick your group. A lot of class discussion either in small groups or with everyone. I had heard a lot about how the english classes were awful and just papers non stop. We did 1 paper a project an in class midterm and a paper for the final that was take home. Over all grade received B+
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Pros: -fun, and caring
-interesting topics through out course which is popular culture
-u actually learn to write better
Cons: none
You have to read for this class but the readings are relatively short and interesting because they are modern. You have a few essays but they arnt so hard. This class is fun and really interesting mrs. Harwell is a wonderfull professor and isnt boring. i enjoyed this class that i took her for two english courses already. grade recieved A
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Pros: really funny teacher, you wont get bored in this class
Cons: none :)
This Professor knows what she is talking about, She is my favorite professor so far in Cal poly pomona, im taking her again in 104:) take this class with her, its fun, but you actually learn
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She is a great teacher! She helps you a lot and explains a lot to you.
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she is the best English professor i ever had, hope she comes back and teach again at CalPoly. i recommend her to any one willing to work hard and want to learn how to write. she teaches really good and the best thing she will let you rewrite i went to the writing center so i go As and Bs on my papers. this class had two in class essays which you have to pass one of them to pass the class. you will also have a research paper that she will assign work before it is due which makes it easy when you write your research paper. take her and you will not regret Grade Received: B+
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I agree with the person right below me. She is very helpful and is very friendly at that. I think she is a reasonable grader when it comes to paper, and if you don't do well on those paper you can always rewrite to get some extra points added to your paper. She just takes the average of your old score and new score. Take her class, you won't regret it. Grade Received: A-
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Mrs. Harwell is SUPER NICE. She definitely knows what she's doing. She hates it when people text in her class so just don't do it. Many people did it in front of her and she got mad about that, but she was nice enough not to take their phones away. Be prepared to do a bit of reading, but it's not that horrible [and I hate reading, so you know this isn't gonna be that bad]. She assigns a LOT of group work, so that will help you a lot. Sometimes you choose the group and sometimes she assigns them. If you're good, she'll assign you with your friends. I emailed her a few times even about stuff not related to her class and she was EXTREMELY helpful about it. I highly recommend taking her class. Grade Received: A
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Nice teacher. Great personality. Her tests can be hard though, and her grading is quite a bit harsh. Your papers need to be perfect to get an A. Absolutely no grammar errors are allowed. If u study for the tests, ull be fine. I would recommend her. Grade Received: A-
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Ms. Harwell is the nicest teacher ever! She helps you on anything. Even on things that are not related to class, like a paper for another class. She is always happy and very considerate. She is considerate because she doesn't grade you on things you haven't learned yet. In her class I barely pass, but I really enjoy her class. Even, if I had to retake the class. I would take her.
In that class there is active English every Friday, there are 3 exams, and there are 3 paragraph exams.
I would also like to say Thanks to Ms. Harwell.
Grade Received: C+
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Mrs.Harwell was extremely friendly. She will help you with anything you need and she has a great personality. She smiles all the time and make her students laugh. Only thing I didn't like about her class was her tests. I believe.. little bit less than fifty percent of my whole class FAILED her tests every time. We had exams almost every Fridays(regualr exams and paragraph exams). I think we had SIX or SEVEN total exams throughout the quarter including the final. The lady is friendly and nice, but her class is hard and she also grades papers hard. She offered extra credit towards end of the quarter because most of the class were failing. I barely passed the class with C (I spent tons of time for this class!). Try to look for other English teachers!! Grade Received: C
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Mrs. Harwell is a great teacher, she s funny, she s super nice too. during the quarter, we just took three grammar tests, three paragraph tests and a final. not too many assignments, and the class is not boring. i had a great time the past quarter. so i highly recommand you to take her... you will like it.!

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