Steve Guppy - Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC

Professor: Steve Guppy

Department: Creative Writing & Journalism

College: Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ENGL115
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Awesome class! Funny and nice and inspirational.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CREW211
• 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:

Steve is an incredibly insightful and entertaining professor. I wasn't sure of my interest in poetry prior to my first class with him, but he's helped solidify it this year. He knows his stuff very well, tells great jokes, and has a positive and productive attitude. Highly recommend taking any course with him.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ENGLENGL
• 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:

Mr. Guppy is an excellent teacher who clearly cares that the students are learning. Work hard, pay attention and hand everything in on time and you will find this an enjoyable class. If you must take English 115, take it with Steve.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: CREW110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

A very knowledgeable and interesting fellow. Always has engaging and interesting lectures filled with information. He gives effective criticism and insight into your own personal poetry style. I am very excited to have him as a fiction teacher.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CREW110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Great Professor, I've had him 3 times now, and I always regret missing a class. Grades fairly, and is always willing to help.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CREW110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

I found Steve to be very interesting some classes, then again very dull others. If you get on his bad side (like I did due to a few missed classes) your mark will be lowered. Sometimes his comments can be useful, but other times it seems like he is just pushing his own wishes/stlye into your poem. But it was a fun class in the end.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: CREW110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Steve is a good poetry prof, maybe cause he actually is a poet. Go to class and hand everything in on time, and you'll get a high grade

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ENGL115
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

blah, most boring class ive ever attended but he does know his stuff.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: ENGL115
• 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:

Steve is very nice proff!! He is very helpful and makes students laugh in class. He is not easy marker, but you can get good mark if you work hard in your writing!! I want to take his class again if I can...

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: SHORTFICTION
• 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:

Steve knows what he is talking about in terms of fiction. He is informed and, above all other things important in a writing professor, he encourages and doesn't meddle with your individual voice and style. This is someone who can see each piece of writing on its own terms and help improve it from that basis.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CREW110
• 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:

Great teacher. He seems to have a preferance breivety over some of the longer flowy prose poems that I like to write sometimes, although it hasn't affected my mark negatively.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: ENGL115
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

I was horrible in english and hated the thought of taking the class. Guppy is awsome. He has helped my english skills enormously and no longer dislike the subject. He's funny and helpful. I highly recommend him.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: ENG115
• 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:

Good informative professor, he is very helpful and clear on asignments

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ENG115
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

He is a great teacher, I wasn't looking forward to having to take English but i am glad now that I have taken it with him. His ancedotes are funny and he is very compromising if you think that topic you thought up for an essay was better than the ones he had assigned.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: CREW
• 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:

Very intelligent, honest, resourceful, and encouraging.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ENG115
• 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:

He's a very good teacher, and he's an author on the side as well. Quite a nice guy as well.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: ENG115
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

he is funny and cool, and makes learning fun!

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: ENG115
• 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:

Engl 115 with Steve Guppy was the most useful, practical class I have taken in all of my 4 years at University. He teaches all of the grammatical basics that one should know in a very clear and painless fashion. He's a fair marker, and a really nice guy.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: CREW
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Steve is an excellent teacher. He has some great anecdotes, and even though the course is about writing, he always takes time to answer our q's about the publishing process as well. Steve marks you on how well your story/poem is written, not on style.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: CREW120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

I don't know what all this "marks well if you write in his style" **** is about. He marks you well if you write well, and if you write poems about the squishy wishy adorable puppy, he is more than willing to help you write better.