Neiderman sucks. If you take her class you'll regret it.

The worse prof ever. Contradicts herself all the time and changes paper topics at the last minute. All we did was write, write, and write, most was busy work.

She marked me late on the first day of class. its abig campus i was lost come on. she only gives u a good grade if she likes your topic. i was in the hospital and she took points off for attendance... hope she retires soon

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROF. I got an A- and I still hate her. She doesn't know enough about her subject matter to be teaching at the college level. Lots of misinformation.

She is the worst English teacher i have ever had. She's extrmely unclear with assignments and the amount of work given is very unreasonable for a freshman level course.

Her class was the worst class I think I could have been in. I don't understand how so many peoplehate her and she is still teaching. If you can try to get another professor because she has no clue what she is talking about, Good Luck!

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she was by far the worst professor i've had in all of college. and i'm almost done with my degree. she doesn't have a clear understanding on the material herself. and so she's pretty terrible at conveying it to students.

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She cannot teach and is very unhelpful I would not take this class

She is always teaches the class with a very poor class lesson plan. I'm an education major and can notice one thing about her she is an expert on English not a teacher. By the way if you’re in English 11001 that is two semesters you can switch professors next semester you just need to tell an adviser before the due date to sign for spring classes.

she is the worst english professor that i have had in two years of college. she constantly contradicts her own points and trying to write a thesis for her is impossible.

she is so hard and I will never take with her even when I have to because she doesn't like any one in the wotld

this teacher is not clear on what assignments are due or what she wants for the assignment she is a lazy poor excuse of a teacher that is inflexible and is very disappointed when the assignments are not exactly how she wants it

To all those who are researching to pick teachers congrats. Your reward DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS. She is unclear, unhelpful, and only teaching at kent because college teachers are paid more then high school teachers plus they are not held by thier students performatice.

She is the worst teacher I have had so far in college. She is extreamly unclear on what she wants for her assignmnets. What ever u do do not take her she will make your life hell

This woman is very stressful and is a confusing teacher when learning what assignments her students have to do. I have learned a lot about writing however she makes your go about it down an independent route. I do not recomend this professor at all. I recieved a B in this class. I am not a lazy student and this is not a teacher you want.

Online Writing 2. She is so unorganized. Everything is everywhere. Each assignment is in three places with a different description of what she wants. I never have any idea what is going on in this class. It is bewildering. Her Ohio benefit bank assignment is terrible & dependent on people working with you at the site. My Grade for her is a D-.

Had her for Online Writing 2, and she is extremely stressful and anal about anything and everything that you turn into her. If you care to have any opinion at all, or any thought of your own, do not take her as she does not care about them.

She is absolutely awful. The class is very political based. She expects so much, but doesn't really give clear guidelines, so you lose points a lot. She knows she is difficult yet she doesn't care. I email her almost daily and still don't know what she wants. We finished papers and haven't received feedback after 3 weeks now. I could go on forever.

Horrible. Awful. I despise writing but she made me realize why my major does not involve writing. Unfortunately College Writing 2 is a Kent Core requirement no matter what your major is. She wants so much out a student without giving them anything to work with.

Absolutely the worst professor I've ever encountered. Does not know how to teach. Kent state needs to hire better professors than this.

Nothing she says Can make you a better writer. Take this coUrse with a different professor. do Not waste your Time.

*DO NOT TAKE ANY CLASS WITH THIS PROFESSOR EVER* She is the absolute worst teacher I've EVER had. If you ask for help, she does NOT help you. Go to the Writing Commons with all your issues if you get stuck with this professor. If you can avoid her, AVOID HER. Good luck if you do.....

VERY HARD ONLINE CLASS. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

Omg! Terrible, way 2 much writing. I wasn't taking this class 2 become a writer! But u would've thought I did! Stay away or be prepared 2 not have a life! Assignments do by 7 pm online, not good if u have a job & family.

NEVER EVER EVER TAKE THIS PROFESSOR, she is rude and could care less to give anyone a nice grade they deserve, prepare to NOT have a life at all. You work? She doesn't care, 7pm is when all assignments are due. And you'll never know what she's asking you to do!!!

DO NOT TAKE BEVERLY NEIDERMAN. I can't even begin to describe the stress that she has put me through for an ONLINE COURSE IN MY SENIOR YEAR. She's rude, condescending, and has zero respect for her students. In my four years at KSU, she's HANDS DOWN the worst professor I've ever taken. Work my ass off and I am nearly failing her course.

Worst professor that Kent State has to offer. She is clearly slipped through the cracks and keeps her job because of her "relationship" with the program director. Don't waste your time and money on someone who will give you nothing for it.

All of her prompts are vague, yet she still grades extremely tough. You never know what she wants or what will come next. Only homework was writing papers and the occasional presentation. She's friendly, but not a good professor. Worst complaint: her grading and lack of helpfulness.

It is baffling how she is allowed to teach paying students. This was my first (and last) foray into the Kent State College of English. I had taken my two basic English classes elsewhere, and I have never been more thankful for that then right now. Worst learning experience of my Kent State career (120 credit hours, just graduated), look elsewhere.

DO NOT take any class taught by Prof. Neiderman. I am absolutely amazed that she even has a job at Kent State. After the third week of the semester I was trying to switch professors. I just finished my first semester of Freshman Honors Colloquium with her and I am required to take another whole semester with her. Unclear, rude, not helpful, awful.

Terrible experience. I would advise honors freshman and any student to avoid this professor. She is consistently rude and disrespectful to students. She is demoralizing and demeaning. Her grading criteria is non-existent, and prompts are vague. She tends to be emotionally manipulative and conducts her class with a God-like complex. WORST CLASS EVER

I had her for College Writing and had a horrible experience. Unbelievably tough grader, which would fine if her instructions were clear but they are not. For a Kent core class there is way more assignments than I would ever imagine and you should expect to never achieve 100% on any of them. I would never recommend this professor for any class.

Easily one of the worst professors I have ever had. Too much work was assigned for the level a Kent core class is, and she seems to think your life revolves around her class. One of the first assignments was to read a full length book over the course of two days! I would recommend taking ANY other professor for College Writing II.

She expects way too much out of students that take the class. I'm a CCP student who tested into it, and I usually have A's and B's but this will be the first C I will get. We are writing an 8-10 page "research paper", only it is not a research paper but rather another argumentative essay. She didn't make that clear until 3 days before the due date.

Constantly told that my writing was not clear and concise even after trying on multiple occasions to learn how to be more concise. Hardly ever got feedback that I wouldn't deem rude. One such example is, "Do not use repeated, redundant, unnecessary, or empty word choice or phrasing."

Her 7PM deadlines show no regard for students with jobs or commuters who need extra time. As someone in both of these categories I can tell you I don't have the precognition to work in these time frames. The coursework will feel like a juggling act with more flaming bowling pins than you practiced with. Keep moving fast enough and you might survive

Arguably the worst professor I've ever had. Assignments are unclear and often contradictory. Feedback is not helpful and sometimes rude. Even following the book and lectures, my writing was still barely passible to her, even though writing is usually one of my stronger subjects. Take anyone else--it is highly unlikely you can get stuck with worse.

Incredibly vague and gives way too much work. The syllabus and course schedule have missing information about due dates. Terrible professor.

I have a 3.75 GPA in molecular biology. This was by far the most stressful class ever. Multiple times she would give feedback which was blatantly incorrect. I had multiple people from different graduate backgrounds read over my work, and her comments, and we all consistently agreed that she is nuts. Failed writer who needs to feel important, probs.

The most ridiculous grader I have ever had. So many unnecessary papers and posts it's ridiculous. She keeps changing her grading policies and is a freaking psychotic nazi about everything. Do not take her English 21011 class. I would rather fail than take her class again.

The worst professor you will ever have, I promise you for how much she stresses about no mistakes shes the CEO of grammar and punctuation errors. She is extremely unorganized with her class layout and doesn't get back to your emails for about a week and a half because "she's busy." You have to be able to read her mind to fully comprehend anything!

For a professor who preaches about perfect punctuation, she was very hypocritical throughout this semester with her unreadable rubrics. She is extremely lazy and showed no effort towards helping or teaching, instead, she would use outdated rubrics with last semester's dates! I can keep going on about how lazy she is but I am out of characters.

Ive had great grades my whole life until this class. She never gives full credit for an assignment. At the beginning of class, I emailed her often for help because her instructions were unclear. She would help me and then I would still get points marked off. She told me she doesnt have google docs by email. Everything is .doc not .docx.

She's the craziest professor I ever had. If u can't write a paper with a strong thesis and all-library research, ur paper won't even pass. for discussion boards, even u meet all the criteria u still won't get full credit. And her requirements are not always clear. she has. If can't devote extremely lot enough time to this class u may hardly pass

DO NOT TAKE! This professor only provides negative feedback, yells in capital letters, repeats herself in communication that isn't clear, tends to be condescending, and even if you follow directions perfectly she says you don't and marks off points even if you have proof that you followed through properly. Beverly is 100% the WORST prof ever.

easy to contact but never answers questions directly. a 10 point assignment will have an essay of comments back on what you did wrong. assignments due every other day.

The class was asynchronous on blackboard. The layout was difficult to figure out and when I asked questions she was rude and basically told me to figure it out. extremely tough grader. will take off points for literally anything. It is almost impossible to figure out what she wants from the student. do not take her unless you absolutely have to.

I dont even need a full semester with her to know that she is truly the worst professor Ive ever encountered. Her rubric and syllabi are totally confusing and she has a very tough way of grading. For example, I got a 6.75 on a discussion post. A DISCUSSION POST. If you can help it, please do not take a class with her.

She is one of the worst professors I have ever had for a writing course. Neiderman uses a lot of words to describe what she wants that end up being pretty vague and unhelpful. Not only that but she also contradicts herself in many areas. There is too much material to balance with other classes, I suggest a different professor.

I am not the best or smartest student out there. If I work hard, I can get Bs. Her class is the only class I got a D in ever. I worked hard for this D, talking to her personally and going to the writing lab. She is understanding if you talk to her but it doesn't mean she will grade you easier. Just go to another professor!

Worst professor ever and gives really bad suggestions on writing that are often contradictory

Professor Neiderman was the worst professor I've ever had. I even did well in her class. Her prompts are extremely vague, but she grades tough. Writing assignments are due every other day and they are extremely involved. The Friday the big paper was due, she assigned a 4 page reflection paper due on Monday during finals week. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!!

I know this class is tempting because it is online and you may think it is less work. It is not. Neiderman gives very little instructions on what she wants, then nitpicks things she never asked for. Feedback is confusing and contradictory. If there is nothing wrong with your submission she will find/make up an excuse to take off points.

This was the hardest class I have ever taken, the feedback did not make sense most of the time. There was so much work, I would work on this class so much. There are so many papers in short amounts of time.

This course was the most unecessarilly hard class I have ever taken in my life. I have a lot of email correspondence that shows her tendancy towards self-contradiciton and condescension. She had me physically input spaces in between lines in my works cited once because she refused to understand how formatting software works. Horribly hypocritical.

As of now I am still currently in the class, but wish I would've withdrawn or dropped it. Do not take this course with this prof, your grade within a few days will drop drastically. Her feedback is not helpful & very contradicting, making me feel like she does not understand how technology works via essays being graded very picky on tech issues.

confusing instructions, overlapped dates of assignments, strange plagiarism checking program that gives wrong results, and overall stress and unpredictability when you do a lot of intensive work that involves knowledge of computer science and social sciences but you keep getting bad grades

Beverly Neiderman... the ABSOLUTE WORST teacher anyone will EVER have. Extremely unclear even on the simplest of tasks, uses a plagiarism checking site that's completely wrong (says you plagiarized the title of the assignment and then gives no points bc of it??), replies to emails that don't answer your question, due dates change, just awful!!

She is an extremely tough grader. She gives terrible feedback. I dropped this class so it wouldn't bring down my gpa. I've always been a strong writing but for whatever reason, what I wrote was not good enough for her. I strongly advise everyone to take college writing 2 with anyone but her.

Please, do not take this class with this professor. This class gave me so much stress to the point of mental agony. I'd completely understand the work load if assignments were due at 11:59pm like most professors, however, when I took this course assignments were due at 10:00pm every MWF. Drop while you still can.

Worst class I have taken at the university so far. I should've dropped the course after the first week, but I have never had problems with my writing before during any college writing course. Nothing I wrote was good enough. Her feedback was often hypocritical, contradictory, and passive aggressive. Take this course with literally anyone else

Do yourself a favor - skip this teacher.

I would recommend no one take any course with what could barley be called a teacher. Asking for any help on assignments just gets you referred to the prompt or rubric. Most prompts and rubrics are filled with mistakes and conflicting requirements that leave you confused. Feedback is very unhelpful and often filled with rude, condescending remarks

Very hard to navigate with unclear instructions! I would not take this professor again. She gives long feedback but does not provide much information, just a lot of words. Do not take this class if you care about your mental health