If you enjoy women's right's speeches and hippie babble then you might enjoy this class. Not that I am against it, but lets read something that has a man in it for once. She is kinda cool, very opinionated and she expected everyone to be Ivy League right away, I didn't appreciate that.

Had to change required books three times... need i say more

She's incoherent, gives no standards/templates for work. All knowledge comes from either you or fellow students. Total HW time a week 20-30 hours. If you are super organized w/ a lot of free time on your hands, and want your writing to become a target take this class. If not, don't. Going to probably have to retake, messed up my whole semester.

She Basically sucked.... she was very inconsistent with grading... just not good... will not take again.

Lee was the worst teacher I have ever had, she was inconsistent with everything... grading, her opinion, you name it. She really is a wacko... NEVER take a class from her!!!! You dont even know what your grade is until the end of the semester, very annoying! Also, she has a myspace, check it out. lol

She is horrible. Do not take her class. She is not understanding and is very proud to be a lesbian. Class never started on time and she never planned it before class. I do not recommend this class.

Mortensen, lets just say cannot teach what she wants to teach. She cannot make her point clear of what she wants. She looks everything up online to try to show how to do it. For essays, good luck on trying to guess what your paper is supposed to be about. Picky grader. Not the best, choose another teacher

I'm English major and I love to write. She is the worst professor I have ever had. I just can't stand her liberal agendas and annoying voice. I also think she is a poor teacher and I don't think I learned anything in her class. She was whining the other day that she didn't get paid enough and I thought, You're the suckest teacher ever.

Lets see where to start, I feel i am a much worse writer since taking her class. She always missed and canceled class. Her lectures were almost impossible to understand. Then even though the semester had ended she was still having assignments due. I would never take a class from her again!

She's is awful. I think that she made me a worse writer. She cancels class all the time and expects you to know how to do the assignments even though she doesn't teach. DO NOT TAKE HER!! You will regret it, I did.

Take this class if you want to fail. She is not helpful at all, i haven't been given feedback on 3 papers we have written. She cancels class half the time so when an assignment come around nobody knows how to do it. Yet she expects it to be done. Oh well. Pick a different teacher.

Probably the worst English teacher I have ever had. Don't expect her to ever be on time and don't plan things right after class since she will whine if you leave while she's still talking. She doesn't hand assignments back on time and grades rough. I got an 80% on one paper and it was the second highest grade. Everyone drops the class...it's awful!

I think I hate this woman. She has tons of reading every day but only talks about the ones from weeks ago. If you ask her a question, ya, she'll talk, but not about anything related to what you wanted to know. She's hard, only because you have no idea what she wants. I was super excited for this class till she destroyed by will to live.

Unorganized!!!!

This was the worst teacher that I have ever had! She didn't explain things at all and she is extremely slow with getting grades in!

I wish I could give her the benefit of the doubt, BUT this Class flat out SUCKS! So confusing! You leave class more confused than trying to interpret an Obama Speech! If your looking for English 1010, this CLASS IS NOT FOR YOU we went from 30 plus students to 8 within 6 weeks!

She has some good BASIC concepts that she teaches that are good, the problem is anyone can teach these concepts. Other than that She is very confusing, she's not a good idea for entry level classes. She also likes o steel thunder from students who have good idea which created a lot of disinterest in her class for me. she grades hard

The first day that I walked into this class I knew I should have got out. I deiced that I would push my self and take the class. Big mistake... working a full time job there was no way I could keep up with her homework. We had 1-3 assignments due every class period. In the end I gave up and now I am going to retake the class with another professor

Walking into class that first day was something I was dreading because it was the first day. By the 3rd week that dread intensified and I now want to just not show up anymore. Her lectures are jokes and her assignments completely ridiculous. We''ve focused on the same thing for the past three weeks and it''s just becoming completely over rated.

She is very indirect about her assignments and what she wants out of you. She spends too much time talking about irrelevant things, and not enough time talking about things that actually matter.

Lectures are long and rambling, often unclear as to what she expects. Assignments come at seemingly random intervals, and we only covered a small fraction of the assigned reading either in class, or in assignments.

Very vague with assignments, used class to ramble about irrelevant topics, nobody knew the guidelines or due dates for the assignments. Attendance was mandatory though pointless. Tons of unannounced busy work assignments which we were supposed to know about via telepathy. Terrible at keeping grades current. Everybody drops the class. I wish I did.

Spends 15 or more minutes of many classes changing assignments. Assignments on several websites which don't agree with each other. It's difficult to tell whether or not assignments are missing. She rambles on in class during "lectures". Directions on assignments are highly confusing, and she doesn't answer questions clearly.

Does not grade papers until the semester has ended, claims she has high expectations and that is why people get low grades, the more accurate example is she uses it as an excuse for her poor teaching. from the whole semester we got feedback on one paper. the rest have not been graded 2 weeks after the semester ended. DO NOT TAKE

I didn't learn jack in this class. She mostly tried to push her world views into the subject and she would ramble about different subjects for half the class. I zoned out or played games on my phone. She didn't make the topic interesting and I had no desire to go to class. Find a different teacher.

This is one professor I would run away from. She is unorganized, unprepared, lazy, and uninteresting. She barely grades papers and rambles most classes about pointless world views that she feels justified in sharing. You won't learn anything and she will irritate any sane person. I am confused as to why this person still has a job at UVU. Run away!

Honestly... From day one there was no structure... Assignments were not clear. Expectations were not clear. She cancelled class the week after fall break to "catch up" on grading, but didn't grade a thing! Saw one grade in September, and didn't see another one until the final grade. Impossible to see what your grade was during the semester.

Horribly unorganized. Would write her lesson plans during class. Didn't grade any assignments until after the term was over so there was no way of knowing how well you really did. Frequently forgot to add assignments to canvas & changed due dates. Frequently rambled off topic. As a Freshman, if she was my only teacher, I would have dropped out.

When I say this is the worst professor I've ever had I mean it. I've never been so frustrated with a teacher. By the end of the semester only 7 of us actually showed up because class was ran so badly. Very unorganized. I did every assignment well and showed up to every class and alas I still got a low grade. Didn't put grades in all semester either

She has an unclear grading criteria, it also took her till the end of the semester when class was let out to start grading assignments so I didn't know what she expected from me, because I didn't know what sort of grade I was getting due to the lack of feedback. She often went off on random tangents that were highly inappropriate and unrelated.

She doesn't grade anything until the very end of the semester, so you have no idea what your grade is. She doesn't use Canvas well, but rather puts everything on an outdated and hard to sift through personal website. Her lectures are off-topic and rambling, consisting of things that should be taught in high school. Strange and ineffective workshops

I hate being negatively critical but this is the worst teacher/class experience I've ever had. No one really had any idea what was going on. Due dates were constantly pushed back. The most frustrating thing was that nothing was graded until the end of the semester, so no one had any idea if they were passing or not until the very end.

This is the worst class I have ever taken. Lee never was prepared and spent half the time talking about something that had no relevance. She didn't grade a single assignment until after the semester was over.

Absurdly disorganized. Assignment expectations are unclear, gives no rubrics. Takes FOREVER to grade things. Grades harshly anyway. Turned in an essay--as far as I could tell it met all assignment requirements, she told me MANY things she liked about it, then gave me an 85 because it was "rough." Expects more from you than she does from herself.

Goes on tangents and barely discusses/focuses on course work. Gives little to no useful feedback on writing and is very unpredictable with grading/homework. Isn't clear on what she wants and barely teaches.

Lee was very disorganized. She doesn't grade anything in a timely manner or fairly. If you hit all requirements for an assignment she will give you 80% not 100% because that's 'passing.' If you want an A prepare to go above requirements. I had to get 5 books for her class which cost more than one textbook. Avoid taking a class by her!

Assignments wouldn't be added to the calendar, so she would change due dates frequently. There's a lot of reading, but everything you read isn't really applicable to the module and feels like a waste of time. Minimum of two 1000+ word stories are due each week and another assignment. Wouldn't recommend if you want to improve or start your writing.

Lee Mortensen isn't all that organized. For a while, the canvas page wasn't even fully updated and I wasn't sure what work I needed to do. From my end, she updated it right as a big deadline was around the corner. Now I'm playing catch up. The readings she posts don't really matter to playwriting. Lots of busy work and guess work on the homework.

Her class is so unorganized. Canvas is a mess and super difficult to understand. She adds so many things last second and is always switching the due dates. A lot of her class sources we read and use are liberal which isn't a problem but I signed up for an english class not a political class that makes me read things that I would rather not read.

Very disorganized. Provides contradicting feedback and short email responses. Not a single paper was graded until after the term ended. Last-minute assignments added to Canvas. Sent me someone else's graded paper on the last day. Required repetitive note-taking. Required multiple essays & a 384 page read the final two weeks of the term.

One of the worst teachers I've ever had! The teacher pushed her political, religious, and sexual agenda. Didn't even have a choice in the books we read, lots of textbooks required. Assignments were confusing; never knew what to do and never had a rubric ever, also graded hard. There wasn't any guidance. Would NEVER take this class from her again!

The professor gave lots of assignments. Don't take this class if you aren't prepared for lots of writing. Never graded any of the assignments until end of the semester. Required to meet with her twice during semester, that helped the most. Would probably never take her again. Did not like her teaching methods or appreciate the reading material.

She doesn't know how to use Canvas at all. Her stuff is EVERYWHERE and unclear what needs to be done. IF she grades things she never leaves a comment on it to explain why your grade came out that way. She uses an AI checker that doesn't work and will flag your essays when you don't use AI and when you're writing about personal experiences.

She took an extremely long time to grade assignments- three months for one of the essays. Once they were graded there was very little feedback on assignments that she would dock 12+ points on. She pushed her own political ideas onto assignments and her main comments in consults were about her stance against my thesis instead of writing technique.