Buddy Nordan - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Professor: Buddy Nordan

Department: English

College: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Rating # 1

Overview:

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

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Comment:

In Buddy's class, you get what you put into it. He helped me to open dorrs in my writing that I didnt even know existed.

Rating # 2

Overview:

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

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Comment:

Buddy is the best teacher I've ever had. It's easy to slam him for not being overly involved with your writing, but if you open yourself up to him it becomes such a wild experience. I there are some critics on this rating system... great !!! I learned more about life and character just by observing Buddy than I did in four years of college. He's the man.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ANYTHINGFICTIO
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• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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Comment:

great character. tells amazing stories

Rating # 4

Overview:

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

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Comment:

he gives bad grades but if you want to know if you're good, he's the guy to tell you and he'll give you great encouragement if you seek it.

Rating # 5

Overview:

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

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Comment:

Buddy Nordan is great because he IS CRITICAL of what is turned into him. Those who are looking for some meaningless backslapping, can look elsewhere. Nordan knows fiction.

Rating # 6

Overview:

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

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Comment:

He is an AMAZING writer--but only a disengaged, unhelpful teacher who gives minimal comments and absolutely no suggestions.

Rating # 7

Overview:

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

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Comment:

To see him get a bad rating offends me personally. I have seen him repeatedly take students from mediocre, sometimes horrible pieces, and help them achieve a great work of fiction. If you didn't like him, you are not a writer. on my top 5 teachers ATim

Rating # 8

Overview:

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

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Comment:

If you don't like Buddy Nordan, may you fall into a swamp.

Rating # 9

Overview:

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

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Comment:

Anyone who has given Buddy negative comments has apparently never read one of his books. A writer like that can't help but teach others.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: WRITING
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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Comment:

Buddy is awesome. Ignore these no talent bums.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: ENG1094
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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Comment:

Readings in Contemporary Fiction with Buddy is nothing more than a book club that you pay a lot of money to be in. This class taught me nothing about my own writing; the comments he gave on my stories were not constructive at all.

Rating # 12

Overview:

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

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Comment:

Great. Wonderful insights and very encourage. But you can't be passive or you may get looked over

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: ENG2010
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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Comment:

great instincts about fiction

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: ENGWRT
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• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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Comment:

Personable and interesting, but runs workshops too loosely and often harsh rather than constructive.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: ENGWRT
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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