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Had to share this: I was just going through last semester's student course evaluations and got the most pleasant surprise.
(Aside: We got our evals back late this semester, because the new policy is that the Department's secretaries need to type them all up before the prof's can see 'em; evals are anonymous and go to the sec's first... anyway.)
So: I just got my first perfect set of student evaluations! Every student in my English 562: Advanced Technical Writing course last semester ranked all 14 aspects of the class a perfect 5.0. W00t! And I got an almost-perfect for my English 564: Advanced Technical Editing course, with only one student ranking two elements at 4. Wowee!
Students in my English 362: Foundations of Technical Writing - required for several majors rather than elective for the Advanced courses - ranked every element of the course except for textbook [natch] over 4.5, so it would seem that my students feel I do a pretty good job. This is the best way to start the semester!
Best,
Chris
(Aside: We got our evals back late this semester, because the new policy is that the Department's secretaries need to type them all up before the prof's can see 'em; evals are anonymous and go to the sec's first... anyway.)
So: I just got my first perfect set of student evaluations! Every student in my English 562: Advanced Technical Writing course last semester ranked all 14 aspects of the class a perfect 5.0. W00t! And I got an almost-perfect for my English 564: Advanced Technical Editing course, with only one student ranking two elements at 4. Wowee!
Students in my English 362: Foundations of Technical Writing - required for several majors rather than elective for the Advanced courses - ranked every element of the course except for textbook [natch] over 4.5, so it would seem that my students feel I do a pretty good job. This is the best way to start the semester!
Best,
Chris
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One of the most entertaining things about the WS I taught were the evals. Most of the responses were good and just what we expect/hope for. But some of them wrote things like, "I hate feminism" or "we only talked about stupid things in this class and abortion is wrong!"
heehee.
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You really scored! (with your students)
It seems as though you made good impressions where-ever you headed with the classes you taught.
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Yes, do not overthink it... you've done this from inate talent and so save the tech-think for the course itself.
I'd love to try technical writing. some thing about that just appeals to both sides of my brain.
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