Kathleen Drury - Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

Professor: Kathleen Drury

Department: English

College: Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ECOMP212
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

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Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ECOMPARG
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

GOODS: Drury is a very engaging speaker, conversant on current events, fashionable dresser, and invites varying opinions into class discussion. Reasonably flexible and cares about us as people. BADS: Papers with arguments she disagrees with can still get As, but they will be graded harder. Intense workload, homework due every other class at least.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ECOMP312
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Professor Drury is wonderful! She genuinely cares about her students and is very encouraging during one-on-one meetings. Class discussions are engaging and a lot of fun. Bonus: she allows one paper extension with no penalty and encourages students to rewrite any and all papers to improve their grades, which is helpful as the course is WI.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ECOMP212
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Masterful teacher of writing, very helpful in improving student work, clear grasp of communication strategies that she passes on to students. Friendly and engaging.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: ECOMP312
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Awful experience with this professor. If she disagrees with your point of view, your grade is going to suffer. My advice is to pick the most elementary arguments that have been rehashed over and over, because those are the only ones that she's open to.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ARG312
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Drury is a master--an excellent, engaging teacher of writing.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ECOMP311
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Helpful writing teacher but found her to be mean-spirited and close-minded. If you don't agree with her analysis of a class reading or your own writing, you will be persecuted. I found her willing to help insincere.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: EXPOSITION
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Delightful woman. Cares about her students, is unabashedly honest, will push for the very best from everyone she teaches. She may say outight "this wasn't very good" but if you agree & you let her, she'll help make it way better; she'll also say what you're doing well & be really proud of you. If you're sensitive, take Brockmann, who's also great.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: ARGUMENTATION
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Helped my writing tremendously. Wonderful woman.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ARGUMENTATION
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Great class, though a lot of work. Made me a much better writer, and made me more aware of the writing/arguments of others. Class always produced interesting topics of conversation!

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: 211
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

This woman is amazing. She cares about the students, classroom discussion is engaging, and she is very clear in her instruction. Can be a tough grader, but she makes it worthwhile. I didn't want to take the class, but it ended up being my favorite. Fight to get in her class.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: QUITEAFEW
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I've graduated from Wash U and to this day, professor Drury is still one of my most memorable professors. She was the first person to truly teach me how to write, how to think, how to express my voice. It's because of her influence that I now teach English myself...and I hated English before

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: ECOMP311
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

****ing male hating **** who should be teaching in high school.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ARGUMENTATION
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Tough grader, but it makes you work harder for a good grade. Best writing teacher I've ever had.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: ARGUMENTATION
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Good class, interesting. Very particular on what she wants on papers, hard grader, but allows lots of re-writes.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ARGUMENTATION
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I loved this class- one of the few i've really liked at wash u. She really made me want to improve as a student. I enjoyed the banter in the class and i'll miss it.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: EXPOS
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Clear, nice, enthusiastic and fun professor. She really cares about her students. Take any class you can from her.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: ECOMP312
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

lots of work, but she is a damned good teacher... argumentation was probably the best class i've taken here

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: ECOMP312
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Impossible grader, a lot of work, but she really seems to care and is thus extremely helpful. Kiss her ass.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: ECOMP312
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Best professor I've had at Wash U. She's not easy, but her Argumentation course is one of the few from which I've really learned something here that will be useful years from now.