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ENGL150 - 1.0 rating“Wants her students to do well”
ENG250 - 3.0 ratingClass Info
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Attendance Mandatory
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Reviews (91)
Wants her students to do well. Gave lots of homework and had a few projects with essays. Book is a must as she wants every chapter annotated. However, she appreciates student input and helps as much she can.
She is not clear. Incredible amount of busy homework. Be prepared to do nothing for the first 50 minutes of class, and then get a boatload of work at the end. Be prepared to annotate anything and everything. Be prepared to keep all work forever. Be prepared to say "Yes I understand" all the time, without ever actually meaning it.
Horrible class. Do not take this professor if you don't have to. This class takes more work than my other 12 credits combined. She says she doesn't do busy work, then proceeds to hand out loads of busy work. Boring lecture, very unclear about things. She will give you homework, but be sure to double check, she will add on to it. Annotate everything
She is all over the place when talking to the class. She never actually answers students questions just talks around in a circle to make it seem like it was answered. She gives out lots of busy work for homework and its all pointless but if you don't do it you will fail. DO NOT TAKE THIS TEACHER EVER.
The most confusing class in history. No one ever has any idea what's going on. She tries to take the class in 17 different directions all of which ultimately go nowhere. Way too much work for a three credit English class at a tech/career-based university. Maybe the worst professor I've ever had.
All you do is busy work all of class, you also annotate every chapter in the book. She is useless and unclear when it comes to answering question
This professor is horrible. She is unclear and thinks that this class is the only one you take. I put more work into this class than others like Orgo or Physics, yet this was my worst grade. Avoid Fong.
DO NOT take her class, she is a horrible professor.If you can help it,avoid her class.She is VERY unclear as to what she wants done for assignments,she give TOO much homework like she's the ONLY class we had. EVERY class time there was ALWAYS three r more assignments due at once
Fong is the worst professor I've ever taken. AVOID HER as much as possible. When I tried to ask for help, she just sent me away, saying that there was nothing she could do to improve my grade when I was simply trying to make my work better. She loves to talk, but rarely makes any sense. Her class is entirely busy work. I didn't learn anything.
Professor Fong is one of those professors that like to hear themselves. She talks way to much but doesn't even explain anything well. She gives papers and projects and expects you to read her mind. She never explains what is expected so you're always lost. However, her papers are easy to pass once you figure out what she wants from you.
Fong is VERY unclear. She'll give you one set of instructions in class and then email you a different set. Oh hey, sometimes she'll just make you wait to get the instructions to something via email the day before it's due. Oh and hey, sometimes she forgets and you have to email her and get them.
Horrible.
She's the toughest teacher when it comes to grading. She'll specify what she expects from you enough to were you thing you know what to do, but after its done its like she changes her mind. You also work on the same papers all semester, it gets extremely boring. If you aren't good at critiquing you shouldn't take this class.
I loved being in Professor Fong's class. At first I was unsure because instructions were somewhat difficult to understand at times, however as the semester went on I was very happy to be in her class. I learned more from her than I have from any other English professor. If you want to learn, definitely take her class. She is also extremely nice.
If you do not do a specific thing for your homework, papers, projects she will confront you in front of the whole class. she is very unclear with directions. She also contradicts herself, I would recommend not taking her class. She gets an attitude with you if you do not do it correctly and if you ask questions. Overall I will give her a 4/10.
Worst Possible teacher at Ferris, never take her class it will make you life hell. Avoid this teacher, I'm a senior and she's still the worst teacher I've ever had.
She isn't a bad person and tries really hard to ensure that her students learn, but she does give a lot of homework in an effort to "better" her students. If you have a busy schedule stray away from this course, but if you feel you need more practice with your English skills, this class will be beneficial.
She has very confusing rubrics and expects us to figure it out on our own with little help. She missed a few of important class days where I would have rather been in class. Overall just doesn't help.
Her class was A LOT of work, but she lets you submit things after revision for a better grade. We also spent most of the semester working in the same group, but I really enjoyed it! BE READY FOR A LOT OF WORK THOUGH.
Professor Fong is one of the most difficult teachers I have ever dealt with. She thinks her instructions are clear and easy to understand. In reality, it's the exact opposite. She makes you do large group projects that last weeks, and expects you to shape your entire life around the class. Just be prepared to have no clue what's expected of you.
She assigns many group projects and assignments with very little time to do them and with vague instructions. She expects you to treat her ENG150 class as "your first internship".
Dont even think to take class with her.
To put it briefly, the entire course is entirely made up of busy work, with the projects worth a massive portion of your grade being confusing and frustrating due to the 5 different rubrics that she hands out. It's almost like she refuses to clearly explain her expectations, preferring instead to complain about how nobody understands what she wants
This class is a lot of work, but if you utilize Fong and ask a lot of questions till you understand and follow her emails, you will do fine. Big discussion board project, an essay, and six board is her class with a lot of work for each. the work she does truly benefits you and helps you with skills. take this class and become close with her
If you are taking professor Fong, Good luck. She provides little opportunity to improve in you English skills. She gives enough homework for you to consider it a 7 credit class. She provides zero feedback on the material you turn in and does not lecture about anything other than her personal life, providing no help with the content at hand.
The worst teacher I've ever had through out my entire education, and I have had some awful ones. She gives you enough work for this to be considered a 7+ credit class and she gives you not even close to enough time to complete it. She gives little to no feedback and spends a lot of time talking about her personal life. Caused major stress for me.
My 3 credit hour english class has much more homework than a calculus class. Awful at explaining anything, writes novels for emails on the daily! Little to no feedback. Expects alot, gives the bare minimum. No rubrics for papers. She makes an assingment that should take a week take an entire semester. Says UMMMM every single sentence. DO NOT TAKE!!
She never taught me the correct way to write my paper, she would say, write a paper in response. then after turning in the final draft she would teach you how to write it. She made you print out a lot of pointless papers that you dont need. I feel like her lectures werent teaching us anything, just yelling at us for what we did wrong.
She is a sweetheart as a person and very nice. Yet as a teaching is not her calling or profession. She will give you more work than an accounting class and the papers are longer than the great wall of china. She will make you listen to 3 hour podcast and expect you to write a paper about it with no rubric then slam you about it. DO NOT TAKE HER
This english class is the first class I had actually learned something for english, and now I excel in my papers in higher level classes. If you are stressed or freaking out about your grade or assignment, then that is on YOU because if you talk to her, everything is clear. The people who slack don't do good. This class is all on your effort.
She is the type of professor you need to have in your life. Post taking her course, we are still in contact and she wrote me a letter of recommendation. She genuinely cares for her students. This class and the workload is on you. Manage your time and ask her questions and you will do fine! Those who failed, it was on them for not trying, not Fong.
Amazing professor. Her class is tough and different then other english courses, but you will learn in this course and she is an amazing person to have outside from being a professor. Leaving this class, she is one professor to still keep in contact with outside of the classroom. Cares for her students well being not just the grade.
By far the worst teacher Ive had. She preaches about accountability but its extremely hard to follow along in her class when shes constantly canceling it for random reason. She makes everything difficult and you never makes it clear exactly what is do and when. My whole class was confused. Dont even bother going to her office hours; she wont.
AVOID AT ALL COSTS!! She assigns way too much homework for the class and when you are confused about something on the homework, you go ask her in person and she just makes it way more confusing, contact her through email, she doesn't respond. She also expects things to be done even though she never told you about them. She only puts in a few grades
She is probably the toughest English professor at Ferris. I am a writing major so I felt like a tougher professor would do well for me, however, if your major is not in writing then you may want an easier class. Do what her instructions say and take all advice/ feedback she gives you and you will pass without a problem. She cares about her students
Note - I had to take this online due to covid. All of her instructions from the start to the end of the semester were horribly convoluted. She only sent links to youtube videos to "teach" us. We had about 3 meetings total, none of which she actually taught anything. She took attendance every time. Lots of busywork, nothing that mattered.
I'm taking this class online due to COVID-19, but this is by far the worst instructor i've ever had in my schooling. Never reponds to emails, and cancels damn near every lecture were supposed to have. With 2 lectures scheduled a week, we are supposed to have 28 lectures. Weve had 4. Always says its not her job to teach us the content, YouTube work
Out of all my professors she was by far the least connected and accessible about her work. Instead of meeting 2 times a week online, I was lucky if we meet 1 every 2 weeks. When we did meet it was only for 30 min and not the 1:30 it was supposed to be. Communication with other students in my class is the only reason I passed and was not lost
Professor Fong is a very nice person and cares for her students. But, she is a very tough grader and expects you to know how to write papers based on YouTube videos. I have a 3.8 GPA and this class screwed me over. If you like to teach yourself and write a lot of papers, this is the professor for you.
While Fong was nice this class is for English majors only. It consumed my life and I had to get a tutor. It was on line and she never had a lecture. She only scheduled lectures to answer our questions from the YouTube tutorials which were our actual teacher. The way she set up Canvas was a wreck. No one should get paid to send students to YouTube.
Worst professor Ive had so far. Her directions and very unclear and she does not answer questions when asked. Doesnt respond to my messages. Class was supposed to meet twice a week and we have had 3 in person meetings with her. She has not taught any material but rather sends us YouTube videos to teach ourselves. Canvas set up is horrendous.
Doesnt give feedback only grades your assignment way past the due date. Horrible at responding to messages and doesnt allow students to correct their work.
Directions are very confusing
Always has a negative attitude. Never seems to have anything good to say.
Worst teacher I've ever had at Ferris. Unless you are an English major please avoid this professor at all costs. DO NOT ask questions in her class or she's going to make you feel bad and dumb for asking a question. With COVID she literally barely ever actually has class because she always gets exposed. For the sake of your GPA don't choose her.
This teacher is very bad. Please do not take this class with her. Gives out a ton of homework and she teaches through long YouTube video's. In her lectures she goes on 40 minute rants of complete nonsense that doesn't make sense. She gets sick every other week and then assigns a ton of work. Very time consuming class.
Having her You have to be willing to put in the work and Unlearn a lot of what you were taught about writing and reading and Learn the correct way it’s difficult to pass when you don’t put in the effort and don’t communicate with her. I suggest talking one on one and she will help with anything
This proffesor is by far the worst one I have had at ferris and maybe even the worst teacher I've ever had. Always sick so we never have class, when we do have class she lectures for around five to ten minutes and then goes on a rant for the rest of class. She ALWAYS has a bad attitude. When asking questions be prepared to feel stupid.
Fong's Canvas set up is a nightmare. She is never there for in person class. I think I saw her in person maybe 8 times throughout the semester. She makes no sense at all, talks in circles, and has terrible communication skills. DO NOT take her class, if possible. If you do end up in her class, good luck, you will need it.
Boring...lectures were cancelled or were not scheduled for 50% of the semester. When asking questions about a paper, you were never given a clear answer if one at all. Difficult to get ahold of. I would not recommend this professor.
Professor Fong did not attend half of the classes, however, still made the students mandatorily attend in a designated area. The course material and dates for turn in is almost hidden and you have to try and find it yourself because it is not told or easily available to you. The material is not hard, but very confusing.
Mrs. Fong was probably one of, if not my least favorite teachers. For being an English teacher her direction giving is quite archaic. And be prepared to write an essay the day before its due because she doesn't put due dates on her assignments, rather she will just send out an announcement the day before its due to remind everyone.
Be prepared to print out about 20 pages every week. You are required to meet with a group she selects for you in person (outside of class time) and send her a picture to prove it. She also changes what you will be doing constantly so be prepared to be confused, as it is unclear. You also don't know if class is in person or online until that day.
Worst teacher I've taken, I dont normally rate professors but I had to for Fong so students wont take her in the future. Tons of homework, more than my engineering classes. Thinks 5 paragraph reflection is short easy work. Cant say enough bad things, DO NOT TAKE! Very unorganized, and expects you to put your life into her class. Switch out if u can
You will regret your life if you take this class. I had to drop it because it was SO insane how much work we had. Also she makes being a single mom a personality trait and she will use it as an excuse for everything. Lectures are about her personal life. DO NOT TAKE!!!!!!!!!!!
She is very confusing and is hard to reach outside of class and office hours. She makes more work in assignments then needs to be done and her directions are not clear at all. She doesn't have you buy a book but you have to print off a lot of sheets. Do not recommend her at all.
Professor Fong was the worst professor I have ever had. She was a very judgemental professor and would reprimand students if we did not know the answer. She sometimes would not come to class and still expected students to meet in the library and take selfies to prove we were there. I wish I had dropped her class when I still could.
The class was set up very poorly and took no consideration into making it easy to know what you are supposed to be submitting on each day. I will also point out that she does not explain somethings or even talk or post about them that is worth half of your final grade and expects you to be able to read her mind.
I really liked her as a person and professor. The only thing is that her directions given online were very confusing and hard to follow and she just expects you to know what you're doing. There weren't many papers though and she was understanding about things.
DO NOT TAKE. Jennifer Fong is clearly improvising everything she is doing in classes, and Soley relying on Other educational programs or other teachers work sheets to get by in these classes. The Slides are the most confusing and not informative or clear at all. This teacher recently implied that we only learned how to plagiarize in high school.
This teacher will make everything a single point and then make the essay into your final exam so if you didn't learn anything, which is impossible with this teacher then good luck on the final exam. Would not recommend this teacher to anybody, she can barely be consistent and will blame it on the students for not doing as she's asked.
don't take her class
I thought this course was not that bad and office hours were helpful. She did tend to confuse me when trying to explain things though.
The first red flag was when she told us on the first day of class that she has bad Rate My Professor reviews. It all went down hill from there. Fong is awful at giving clear directions of what she wants from her students, condescending when asked a simple question, and makes everything about being a single mother. Do not take this lady at all costs
Toughest teachers I've had give lots of homework and no leeway for deadlines. Think about skipping a week you will get lost fast. Watch every video read & reread, you do 13 pages and have specific directions for each.Have a slight understanding of tech you are working online. $20 for the e-textbook no way around most of your grade depends on book.
She canceled class often and when this happened loads of homework was assigned that was difficult to understand. Her announcements on Canvas were extremely confusing since it was covered with emoji's and highlights. If you ever want to figure out why you didn't do great on a paper either the only way to know was to meet with her via Zoom.
Worst experience in a class this past semester than I have ever had through my education journey thus far. Her directions are confusing, she's always absent, condescending tone, and unclear deadlines. While this course should have been an easy walk in the park, she made it feel like my walk included falling on my face every few steps. Do not take!!
I took this class in my freshman year and it was the worst class I ever had in my entire life. Her instructions were so confusing. There were assignment due twice or thrice every single week. She assigned lots of homework during breaks. I didn't learn a single thing in this class. I would never recommend this class to anyone.
She's really f'ing bad. Run
She uses another outside website outside of canvas along with using canvas. She's very unorganized and confusing to keep up with. She claims she's doing her best to be helpful but is quite rude and avoids answering what you ask
All of her reviews are true. Expect to put lots of time into her class. She will assign big projects with no guidance.
Do not take this class. She assigns things last minute and does not give guidance for poorly written directions. You are better off taking another class that doesn't assign 20 homework topics a week due on Monday, Wednesday or Sunday.
350 char limit srry for grammar Canceled class a lot but would still expect us to know what to do on assignments. Confusing instructions on hw. Acted like we should be thanking her for all she does for us like shes some special being. “I am doing all of this for you guys” things like that. Group projects. If you have self respect AVOID AT ALL COSTS
DO NOT TAKE. I thought it wouldn't be that bad since everyone giving her a 1 star still ended up with an A in the course. It is that bad. I would never take a class with her again. Directions were very confusing and way too many links. Need the book to get a good grade due to a lot of homework.
I could write an entire APA-formatted essay on this teacher. If you enjoy English or have any understanding of elementary concepts, DO NOT ENROLL. I had to unlearn everything from my past professor. I typically excel in writing, but this teacher made me worse. Do yourself a favor: Find a teacher online over the summer if you need to.
This professor is not good at explaining assignments and makes everything very confusing. There was a lot of homework, and it was very time-consuming. Lectures were boring and useless and she expects a lot out of her students and will mark out points. She was a tough grader. If you take her communicate respectfully and show up and stay after class.
This is a genuine warning, this was the worst professor I have ever had. She often cancelled class, was unclear about any assignments, and had us do stupid group projects all the time that made no sense. I learned nothing from this class, and it was the biggest waste of time. You will hate your life the whole time you're taking the class.
This professor is mostly online but yet has one class a week in person. She is not willing to work with students that cannot get it to free Wi-Fi or has disabilities that have tests going on and will not be able to get to Wi-Fi.
This professor is extremely unorganized, unhelpful, and makes the class harder than it needs to be. She doesn't explain concepts clearly, offers little support, and leaves students more confused than prepared. Easily one of the worst teaching experiences I've had.
worst prof ive ever had and the worst class ive ever taken the amount of work given out compared to the amount ive learned from the class is abysmal after all this time writing and doing terrible explained useless assignments i can say for certain i have gained and learned nothing from this class if you can switch or just drop it do it its worth it
I would not recommend this professor to anyone. The course load is extremely heavy. Everything is over explained to where it you cannot even understand the point the professor is getting at. You have to watch so many lectures. She hides phrases so that you have to actually watch the videos. Things are not explained well. It's rough. Many struggle.
This professor is so unorganized and not helpful. She posts so much on canvas and none of it is helpful. She is very hesitant with what she says in class and it is literally a scavenger hunt tying to find what to actually turn in. I would not reccomend this professor to anyone.
Was so unorganized and her assignments were a nightmare to figure out where to submit. She would also have different directions for the same assignments in three different places. Do not take her for English if you don't have to.
She cares a to much and makes the class very confusing.
If I could rate Fong lower then a one I absolutley would. Her class was a hybrid online and in person but the in person portion was just her reading off of slides that she had already talked about online. This class if full of useless requirements and needlessly difficult grading my only advice to people would be to avoid taking it at all costs.
way too much work, even though all work is done online she still requires you to come to class for a grade. makes you print out 30+ pages multiple times for assignments. She acts like she's helping you but she doesn't just expects you to know how to do everything. her canvas page is an absolute nightmare rabbit hole that you will drown in.
DO NOT take this professor. She will not teach you anything about the course, she just expects you to already know the subject. She spends majority of class talking about the 30 slides she already talked about in the videos. She has you print it out to fill in but she'll have you print out 30 pages only to fill out 7 papers. RUN AWAY!!!
When you ask her for help, she will talk about something completely different and then you'll be even more confused because now you still don't know the answer to your original question or whatever the new thing she just brought up. If you schedule a zoom to meet and discuss your grade, very likely she will not show up.
She is the most HORRIBLE teacher ever. Whatever you do don't take this class. She graded my final paper as I used ai after I went on a zoom call saying I didn't and she agreed I didn't she still graded it like I did. So after I did every single one of her horrible assignments and had a b+ In the class I ended up with a c. SHE IS HORRIBLE.
This class is pure frustration. Instructions are unclear, questions are treated like annoyances, and students are blamed for confusion she creates. Grading feels random, feedback is useless, and effort means nothing. English becomes something to survive, not enjoy, leaving anger, exhaustion, and resentment every single class. SHE IS THE WORST! RUN!
This class is very hard because she expects you to know everything she is trying to say without her explaining it. It is not bad if you stay after class to ask questions she is easy to talk to f2f but she is spotty on responding to canvas messages and/or will just not respond period. By the end of the semester if you keep asking she will help you.
Class Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
93%
Textbook Required
12%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
B+
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
Rating Trend
Declining
-0.90 avg changeRatings by Course
ENGL321
5.0
(1)ENGLISH150
3.0
(2)150
2.5
(2)ENGL250
1.8
(11)ENG250
1.7
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ENG150
4.5
ENGL150
4.3
ENG250
4.1
ENGL250
4.0
ENG
4.0