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Linguistics Prof

kikicoco1
edited March 2008 in General
Do you of you guys know if Clifford Burgess is an easy prof or not??

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  • Student0667
    edited March 2008
    I don't know if the Cliff here is the same Clifford Burgess you are taking about.
  • kikicoco1
    edited March 2008
    yes. same guy. but did you take his class before?
  • Student0667
    edited March 2008
    kikicoco1;23699 said:
    yes. same guy. but did you take his class before?
    No, I am not even in Linguistic. I provided you that review just to show you that he got one bad review and you therefore should be cautious. From my understand, nobody will give a professor a bad review (blue frowny face)unless he/ she genuinely sucks.
  • Ether
    edited March 2008
    Actually, people give good professors bad reviews all the time. They're usually just bitter because they got a bad mark in one of the prof's classes.
  • Student0667
    edited March 2008
    I would argue that we university students have an unspoke code of honor that prohibit us from saying anything bad about good professors. It is because, deep down, it is very hard for us to say anything bad about a professor that is absolutely good. I actually gave good review to a professor that gave me a B because I can not deny how good he is.

    So far, I have given review for over 15 professors and I have only slammed one professor. I slammed this professor because he is very unprofessional, he is underqualified, his marking is very arbitary, also his marking criteria is very unstandardized, finally it appears that he encourages plagarism.
  • kikicoco1
    edited March 2008
    Student0667;23706 said:
    So far, I have given review for over 15 professors and I have only slammed one professor. I slammed this professor because he is very unprofessional, he is underqualified, his marking is very arbitary, also his marking criteria is very unstandardized, finally it appears that he encourages plagarism.
    who's that prof?
  • JayDub
    edited March 2008
    Student0667;23706 said:
    I would argue that we university students have an unspoke code of honor that prohibit us from saying anything bad about good professors. It is because, deep down, it is very hard for us to say anything bad about a professor that is absolutely good. I actually gave good review to a professor that gave me a B because I can not deny how good he is.

    So far, I have given review for over 15 professors and I have only slammed one professor. I slammed this professor because he is very unprofessional, he is underqualified, his marking is very arbitary, also his marking criteria is very unstandardized, finally it appears that he encourages plagarism.
    I dunno so much with that statement because I believe that if one gets a bad mark they are more likely to try and justify it by saying the teacher did something horrible ie gives too much work, their work is too hard, their tests relate to nothing et cetera, instead of accepting the fact that they didn't study well enough or something.

    I have seen this happen a few times with comp sci profs.
  • Student0667
    edited March 2008
    Back to you, kikicoco1...

    Have you try talking to other Linguistics students, maybe they got better info than us.

    Judging by the amount (or lack thereof) of review, I am guess this Professor. Clifford Burgess is relatively new, or maybe not...
    kikicoco1;23736 said:
    who's that prof?
    Irwin Shubert
    JayDub;23745 said:
    instead of accepting the fact that they didn't study well enough or something.
    I accept the fact that I "didn't study well enough or something" when I got a C+ for ARCH 131. I have been kicking myself for it to this day.

    I guess I am one of a kind...

    Now, back to Clifford Burgess and Linguistics...

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