Boring class, but good teaching.

Great teacher, I'll learn a lot!

your mark will reflect your effort.

Useless assignments but easy to do. Your mark reflects what you put in.

Take her classes. There aren't many profs in the eng dept better than she is. Organized, interesting, and helpful. Marks do reflect effort.

if you want to pass GO TO HER OFFICE HOURS!!! in class she's not very clear and is has a very specific way she wants things done. I didn't like her at first, but if you go to her office hours you'll like her better and get the grads you need.

She in love with the sound of her own voice and repeats her self endlessly. Also gives out way to much work!

She doesn't like to admit she's wrong. Likes to talk a lot. Marks harsh but if you complain she might change your mark. Take notes, you'll need them!

Great prof. If you go to her office hours, she is willing to help you 100%. Assignments are bit of a bore, but the prof is really helpful. No final exam, just easy assignments. Good gpa booster if you are willing to put in time and effort.

The business english course she teaches is very easy to get a good mark in. Midterm was only worth 10% and the final was a letter of what you had learned in the class! Talks a lot, but look up the word lecture! Good prof.

Liked her more than most. Very "prim" but I wramed up to her. Projects manageble and no final/midterm. I agree with office hours...big help. Not a cakewalk, but not a hell course either.

Monika is a great professor. Her perfectionism may become annoying. Easy course, great teacher, I would recommend either Monika or cullen for engr 240. Thanks Monika.

She was very helpful in improving my writing skills. If you pay attention you will get something out of this course. Her assignments are pretty easy, she basically hand feeds you what you need to know. The class itself was boring, but you can't blame that on her.

Hard marker, I worked on my first paper for over a week, had it proof read by 2 english majors and still got a C! Still got a B overall but she is a hard marker and the readings she assigns are really boring.

Monika is an excellent prof. she just wants everyone to do well, and if you talk to her in office hours she will bend over backwards to help you with anything. her assignments are fairly easy. overall a very enjoyable course!

Lots of work in this class, She presents the information well. Too much work though and stupid quizes (The semi colon), I learned alot though and would take another class from her

Very helpful! Nice. Assignments can be boring-- but easy A! Just pay attention and you'll do fine!

English 135 is a writing intensive course, and Monika is a hard marker. She's helpful if you see her during office hours, but the class is tough!

Monica was a great, encouraging prof. She strived to help all of her students to be sucessful. If you do the work(it is the same in all English 135 classes), you will be fine in her class. If she offered higher level English classes I would gladly take them.

Clear in content. Explains your mistakes well. Gives good advice. Perfect professor for an knowledgable student. Likes juicy little details.

Clear...but its and english class so its boring. She's easy, so for an engineer this is a good thing

She was great, always up beat and trying to make boring topics as interesting as she could, I felt her marking was very fair. Just a lovely person

Great prof! she turned a class I had to take into one I wanted to take. Very fair marker, cares about her students. If you are not sure about guidelines or want to know if your on the right track with your work, just ask her in her office hours and she will be extremely helpful! We did not have any midterms and final was pretty easy.

Extremely dull lectures but useful information. She posts her slides online as well as handouts ( documents with extremely detailed information on the proper use of punctuation, grammar, report writing etc.), and A papers from previous years. She is a very fair marker and will help you any way she can. I missed two quizzes but she let me rewrite.

I loved Monika, she was very sweet and helpful. All of her assignments were laid out clearly with pretty much all of her grading criteria in it. You spend the last half of the term doing a group project which is a fair amount of work. A lot of her class content is unimportant but you have to be there to stay of top of things and due dates.

Really good professor. Tells you exactly what she expects (and often gives you the marking scheme she will use) so it's your own fault if you don't do well. A large percent of your mark comes from a group project which sucks if you get a bad group, but at least she takes into account everyone's team evaluations.

Monika is really a kind and nice teacher. She helps me a lot during this course and her grades is usually very fair. I strongly recommend this teacher in my personal view.

Ms. Smith is a good English professor because she teaches the class clearly and helpfully, and she gives marks and feedbacks generally and acceptably. For example, in my class, everyone's marks are close to the overall grade. Also, she marks essays fairly. Although sometimes she does not say something very clearly, we can also find her after class.

Really outstanding!!!!!

Very fair marker and really care about her students. Highly recommend her.

The kindest being I've ever seen at this university. easy going, has a goal of helping students whether in class or outside the class.

Very good prof. Reasonable, responds to emails reasonably fast, and is always pleasant to listen to in class. Her lectures are easy to zone out to, but the material is easy enough that there's no problem with it. Group projects and presentations are in the class, which she facilitates and makes sure workloads are balanced.

Best English professor in UVIC!

She's a tough marker, don't expect higher than an 80%. She will give you amazing feedback if you take the time to go to her office hours and talk to her. She'll tell you exactly what needs improvement, and how to improve it. She's a phenomenal prof who really cares about her students. If you put in the effort you can do really well in her class.

God bless Monika. She's like a less angry Helen Mirren and I loved her class

She was an amazing prof. Wish she would let you submit PDF instead of docx. I'd take a class with her again. Don't think this class is an Easy A.

Although her lecture style isn't the most flashy, I thought her care in making the assignments applicable was outstanding. She is a tough but fair grader. Would definitely recommend.

Monika is an absolutely excellent professor. She gives clear, step-by-step instructions for assignments and provides helpful feedback throughout the writing process. She is a kind and approachable person and effectively answers student questions. Would definitely recommend!

Monika is excellent at what she does. There was no getting around the boring content of 135, but she provided a step by step approach to each of the large assignments in the class. This was helpful because by the time you had to sit down and write, she had provided all of the tools, and lots of the content was already completed in class.

Monika is a super sweet lady with the best intentions. She puts in more effort to engage her students than I have seen from any other professor so far. She tries very hard to get to know her students and makes sure that everyone always knows what to do. Feedback is always positive and she means the best with everything.

Great teacher. She puts a lot of effort into written feedback which is super helpful. Very sweet and understanding.

Overall she was a pretty good prof. She is a tough grader but leaves a ton of feedback, giving you many opportunities to improve. The workload was fairly light despite the course being condensed.

She is not that bad, just do what she asks you to do!

Monika was probably my favourite prof for my first year classes. I appreciated the level of feedback she gave on assignments, and felt she graded very fairly. She also responded quickly to emails which was great. Would definitely recommend.

Alright you prob saw the scary reviews and thought “nah not taking her” same lol. But after her class my opinion flipped. She's a tough grader but super fair if you actually try. Office hours are crazy helpful, she answers even dumb qs. Fast emails, detailed feedback. Put effort and she's honestly one of the best profs.