humorous/approachable/reasonable exams/a good teacher

fairly easy, good selections

Ranjini is a good teacher, as long as you show up and do the work you'll get a B which is good in English. She explains essays very well her marking is quite fair. You have to do the work though, read all the novels..etc.

Class is fairly easy, read a couple novels, and one take home essay. I got a B+ overall and I got a B- first year, so her marking is pretty easy.

I found this course very easy and got a B+ when i only received a c+ in the previous english course. I think that she gave out a lot of bad marks in the class though. It depends on whether she likes your writing style.

She is passionate about literature and it is infectious. She does have a thirst for the dark side of humanity, but i'd hardly call her morbid like the last people... she is very helpful and i am really enjoying her class.

think she was a very good teacher. in my opinion alot of people on this board want to cruise through this class without putting in much. Ms. Mendis was very passionate about her subject matter, which is nice for a change.

Ranjini is very helpful-she will make sure that u understand what the assignment is about-i missed a few classes and she would email me telling me more details about certain essays-the novels she assigns are easy readers-if u show up to class she is happy-ask for help when needed and she will luv u

she is a very tough marker but she is a really good teacher!

Ranjini is a very good teacher. I really learn a lot from her and I like the way she teaches. She has a nice way in teaching. She is a really good teacher.

Professor Mendis isn't as hard or mean as everyone says she is;) She is very nice and will help you out if you ask for it.

Ranjini is a good teacher, I don't know why so many people are slandering her name. The teacher is not hard its the English language itself. Therefore you should give Ranjini a chance , and you should not base your decisions on the experiences of others.

Great online course and helpful instructor. She sent so much additional help through e mail updates and an extra website for grammar help.

Found her very helpful. Step by step instructions for assignments and additional help on e mail. Answered all my questions double quick

I had never read a full novel before this course but the novels and stories were really interesting and questions were easy to understand. Tough marker though.

Was nervous about taking English 1100 but I really liked her course. Has her material nicely set up and uses lots of e mails to encourage us to work every week and communicate with her.

Good online delivery. Interesting material every week presented well with lots of help. Gives helpful feedback.

She put in a lot of effot into marking our essays. Colour codes for writing errors so we know what to work on. Do your readings and weekly work and it won't be hard

Likes international literature. Her knowledge of literature is extensive and presents the material nicely with lots of additional links and info to make it interesting.

Feedback from assignments are fair and if you go over it, it does help.

I took this last summer and got a lot out of it but it was a hard course. She was good though.

I took her fully online course. Very nice course website full of great stuff. If you want to do well, you have a good chance with her.

Interesting course. Ranjini is a caring instructor. Expects a lot of "close reading" and details.

Before I took this course I didn't know Indian writers. She likes multicultural writers. You can learn a lot from her.

Professor Mendis is a very fair professor and she gives a lot of opportunity for improvement---she wants you to do well. Since this is a University course, you need to work to achieve a good letter grade---but if you do then you receive the grade you deserve. Prof. Mendis is very helpful if you are trying to improve in writing. Highly recommend.

Prof. Mendis is really fair. Her marking is very helpful, clear and thorough, so you always know areas on which you need to improve. She gives many opportunities for improvement should you put forth the effort. I would highly recommend her if you want to greatly improve your writing.

Prof. Mendis is really fair. Her marking is very helpful, clear and thorough, so you always know areas on which you need to improve. She gives many opportunities for improvement should you put forth the effort. I would highly recommend.

English 1100 is quite hard but Prof Mendis was a very good teacher. The course was on analysis and critique with summary, three essays, reading log, midterm and final. It was highly organized course with interesting readings and assignments. She emails extra information and reminders regularly, so you might miss something unless you keep checking.

Hard. Different from highschool. But she teaches well

This course needed a lot of reading, but literature courses are like that. Ranjini was very helpful and highly interactive. She sent e mails with extra information and also links to website with interesting useful stuff. highly recommend if you are interested in literature.

Very helpful teachings.

Ranjini is a great teacher! Intro academic writing is notoriously hard and she recognizes that, and does her best to ensure students' success. Yes, she is a difficult marker, but she is fair and gives helpful feedback and suggestions. I highly recommend Ranjini for ENGL 1100. You will be well prepared for further university studies.

I enjoyed this course. The literature selections were interesting. I discovered love of poetry. I would take another course from Prof Mendis hands down.

Ranjini is a very decent instructor, very hands on and responds to every question. She provides detailed instructions. Group work is all online and clear steps. Worth taking.

Prof Mendis was very helpful to me. It was a great course website - easy to follow. I learned a lot about academic writing.

I liked how this course allowed us to interact with others through the forums. So helpful to read other peoples answers and recognize if you are on the same page as them when it comes to understanding the literature. It motivated me to try harder when I saw how deeply others were analyzing work. Interactive activities made it not boring!

Ranjini's step by step set up and great website gave what I needed to do well. She understood where we came from and gave extra information when we needed.

I loved the readings in this course. My favourite was poetry but she gave YouTube links to plays and that made it enjoyable and ralatable. She is a tough grader but you learn from her. A great course!

Prof Mendis gave clear and concise instructions and interesting readings to write assignments on. English 1100 was not easy after high school but it made it easy to write for other courses I was taking. A good choice and really nice teacher.

She gave what you needed to do well. Lots or reading required. She knows her stuff and is a good teacher, so you should take her.

I found this course extremely easy (probably since I am an English major). Read the books, follow instructions, work hard and you will be fine. Ranjini is nice from what I am aware of, it was an online class so we only contacted through emails. She was always receptive to questions and eager to help with anything I was struggling with.

I was glad I took this course online because she gave lots of time for assignments and was understanding. It was a very organized online course with lots of help on her website. I wish we had more time than four months. It is not possible to change my habits in four months.

This was unforgettable , the novels she chose were so interesting that for the first time I read complete books. Wave was unbelievable, it made me cry and my mother too. I loved purple hibiscus too but brooklyn was a bit boring. Prof Mendis gave so much in her website that it was easy to write assignments and she was alwasy there to help.

Prof replies to messages quickly. Check emails often because that's the way you get info about assignments & what you need to know each week. Her marking follows the instructions in the text book. The writing handbook is very very useful so best to buy, & then you'll be set as long as you log in each week to see the course website & your email.

Ranjini's course was very helpful for my psych course. I learned what I did wrong and that helped and also the readings were so interesting. One thing is that she expects a lot of reading. If you don't read the textbook, then you are in trouble. Great course.

Wow, all I can say is that Professor Mendis has a heart full of passion and understanding towards her students. I did this course online, and although there was no face to face interaction she made me feel valued and important from afar. I am thankful for her constructive feedback and her willingness to pursue her students success alongside them.

She was wonderful, class was great, and I learned a lot- thank you Prof Mendis.

very Accessible, she was sweet and although the class challenged me the assignments were effective.

Prof Mendises short stories and novels were so interesting and relatable, her theme of journeys opened my eyes to my own journey. I feel that I became a strong writer. I feel more able to create good essays because of her great feedback. Great course!

Ranjini was very helpful, always on top of things. She helped me a lot and answered all my e mails and I appreciate how it helped me to set my own schedule to do my best. She gives lots of time for assignments and clear instructions step by step. I learned stuff I never knew about writing before. I really loved her style.

She cares!!

I actually thought that Ranjini gave really clear guidelines and I appreciated her detailed marking grids. She showed clearly how the marks were given. She is a very conscientious teacher.

Prof Mendis was incredibly responsive and got back to me for every e mail. Her expectations were clear. There were detailed instructions for every assignment. I found her marking helpful and fair. Great choices of lit.

Prof M gave a good quality course. I learned about academic style writing and I am glad I took her. She presented the course week by week on the website with lots of help. One thing to remember is that the Wilhoit text is essential. She marks according to the checklists in it.

She was kind and she gave loads of extentions. Not sure why the posts below. She was very clear. I say definitely take her.

Prof Ranjini was very good. She gave step by step instructions and her marking had a lot of detail that helped me. I learned a lot.

Prof Mendis is a thoughtful, patient & considerate teacher who was really engaged. She made it easy follow her online instructions each week. If you read the instructions, you know what to do to get a good grade. Great course.

Prof Mendis's course was excellent and I learned to write academic essays better. You need the textbooks. They are very clear and helpful. Her detailed marking was extremely useful for me because I never had feedback like that before. She gives a lot to her students, which I needed. I highly recommend her as a prof.

Yes, she has high standards, but this course was interesting and I think useful for learning how to write better for the rest of our courses and when we apply for jobs. I followed the instructions and textbook as she directed, got feedback, and got good marks. People who post terrible ratings obviously didn't.

She always gave how your assignt will be graded list and was super clear in how she marked. I have not got my final grades still but I think I have done well. My sister also took her courses last year and she did well. Miss Mendis is a very good teacher and you will learn a lot. I will take her again.

I took an English course with this professor for my Fall 2020 semester. I highly recommend this professor to anyone that is looking to take an English course at KPU. She has a lot of passion for teaching English and wanting her students to succeed. Every assignment given by her was always given well in advance before the due date.

Along with the assignments she provides multiple links for helpful resources that contributed to the assignment given. She is very clear and good at explaining what she expects for the assignments. She provides in depth feedback for every assignment for a student to correct mistakes for the next assignment. She is a very dedicated professor.

This professor has constructed her course structure in a very manageable way for students to succeed. Some assignments given by the professor such as Reader-Response Forums (RR Forums), known as your own responses/view point regarding a piece of writing that the teacher has assigned, really opened opportunities for students to bump up their grade.

If you have taken an university level English course at KPU and felt like you struggled. I highly recommend this professor, her courses are very oriented in helping her students succeed.

If you're taking this course directly out of high school, expect a turbulent start. Mendis is a good professor who gives good feedback and has a relatively quick email response time. She is a tough marker, but that seems to be all English professors. I had taken this course In September of 2020 online and it has helped me become a better writer. .

I had heard that English credit courses were notoriously hard, but I was pleasantly surprised by doing well in this literature course. Her choice of interesting readings made it an adventure because I like reading. The website was chockablock with helpful info. Very good instructor.

Ranjini is a genuinely nice prof. The stories in this course were very interesting and I absolutely loved The Namesake. She gave a lot of help for writing skills too, though it is not part of the course. I loved the detailed point form instructions for every essay so I knew what to write. I learned a lot from her.

I like these fully online classes so it's easy to do the work in my own time when I'm not at my job. Mendis gave assignments a few weeks ahead with all the info needed to compelete each one so not overwhelming. If you have any questions, she's online most days so answers quickly. She gives way more feedback than other profs, so I learned a lot!

Excellent online course on cultural lit. Instructions posted regularly with youtube and audios and extra materials. She gave clear guidelines on assignments and posted essay samples. That was helpful. Her marking was like other prof's I have had, so no surprise there. Great teacher.

I enjoyed her course and the unusual stories from other cultures. I learned how to learn because of the fully online teaching. I will take her again in a heart beat.

I really don't understand some of the posts here bec Prof Mendis yes corrects mistakes and you have to work for your grade, but I learned and my writing got better. And i loved the stories we had to read. I knew what I had to do each week, and she emailed back when i had questions. I felt good when I got a good mark because it meant something real

Ranjini's Women's lit course (3360) was super interesting and relatable. Her feedback was clear and I learned how to do better. She is super organized. I ended with a high grade because she gave high marks for forums at the end. She was great and I loved her course.

The class was challenging, but if you stay engaged and use tools like unstuck study for study prep, you can do well. The prof gives detailed feedback to help you improve your writing. Overall, a worthwhile course.

Improved my writing skills by the end of this course, beware that the 5 assignments she does give to you throughout the semester are marked thoroughly. You need to ensure you do good on those assignments otherwise it'll bring your grade down. I did amazing on the final but bad on the assignments because my writing wasn't as skilled as it is now.