Hello Prof. Shaw,
I'm afraid that I'm having difficulties with Katherine Conway’s ENG 309 class, and I was hoping you could advise me. First, I received a poor grade on a paper recently that will certainly hurt my grade significantly and I was wondering what grade I needed to get in the class for it to count towards my creative writing and literature major? I'm afraid I may get a C. Second, when I met with Prof. Conway this past Friday to find out exactly why my grade was so low she spoke to me in a loud, harsh, and overbearing tone that, combined with her demeaning and accusatory language, crossed the line into emotional abuse. I was holding back tears minutes into our conversation; before I left she stated that she did not understand why I did not understand the prompt and that she could not give me a better grade until I figured it out. I barely made it out of her office before tears were rolling down my face and by the time I made it back to my room I was sobbing uncontrollably. I had not even gone to her for a better grade on my paper. I had accepted that I had done poorly and …show more content…
She insisted on giving me lines to read during class that were too long and gave me eyestrain headaches, even after I told her that this was the case. Also, after I presented my book report, she proceeded to correct me on certain facts about the book (that I did not get quite right). She corrected me in front of the whole class. It was embarrassing to say the least. She later scolded me for not being prepared to answer questions on my book review during my presentation. I have never presented a book review before and it had not occurred to me that I would need to answer more questions afterwards. In hindsight being expected to answer more questions is obvious, but I don't believe her treatment of me was fair. I may not have been prepared but that does not excuse the harassment I have received from
I'm afraid that I'm having difficulties with Katherine Conway’s ENG 309 class, and I was hoping you could advise me. First, I received a poor grade on a paper recently that will certainly hurt my grade significantly and I was wondering what grade I needed to get in the class for it to count towards my creative writing and literature major? I'm afraid I may get a C. Second, when I met with Prof. Conway this past Friday to find out exactly why my grade was so low she spoke to me in a loud, harsh, and overbearing tone that, combined with her demeaning and accusatory language, crossed the line into emotional abuse. I was holding back tears minutes into our conversation; before I left she stated that she did not understand why I did not understand the prompt and that she could not give me a better grade until I figured it out. I barely made it out of her office before tears were rolling down my face and by the time I made it back to my room I was sobbing uncontrollably. I had not even gone to her for a better grade on my paper. I had accepted that I had done poorly and …show more content…
She insisted on giving me lines to read during class that were too long and gave me eyestrain headaches, even after I told her that this was the case. Also, after I presented my book report, she proceeded to correct me on certain facts about the book (that I did not get quite right). She corrected me in front of the whole class. It was embarrassing to say the least. She later scolded me for not being prepared to answer questions on my book review during my presentation. I have never presented a book review before and it had not occurred to me that I would need to answer more questions afterwards. In hindsight being expected to answer more questions is obvious, but I don't believe her treatment of me was fair. I may not have been prepared but that does not excuse the harassment I have received from