Document 7.1 | Your Email to Dr. Carstens Proposing an Outline for Your Report

Dr. Carstens,

I’m attaching here a group of responses (it’s about 20% of the total number of responses). As you can see, the responses are all over the place. I think the clearest organization for my report would be the following:

Dr. Greenberg

-strengths

-weaknesses

-recommendations

Dr. Matthews

-strengths

-weaknesses

-recommendations

Etc. for the other three instructors.

Please let me know what you think.

Sincerely,

[your name]

• I think Dr. Greenberg did a great job—she really knows what she’s talking about, and I thought it was a great intro to CE. . . .
• I’ve always hated tests, and having 60% of the grade made up of tests was too much. . . .
• CE was okay, but I’d have liked a little more on the profession itself—salaries, market, forecasts, etc. . . .
• I really liked having the class at night. I’ve got a 2-year-old, and I don’t think I would be able to take it (and therefore be a CE major) if the course met during the day. . . .
• I know Dr. Matthews gets a lot of grants and all, but he kept talking down to us. He could lighten up—it’s the first course in the major. . . .
• I really appreciated Mr. Warren’s Saturday workshops before the two tests. It really says something about him that he’s willing to come in on his own time and work with us. . . .
• The teacher said that he wanted us to participate in class, but it seemed like nobody’s answer was as good as his. . . .
• Dr. Patel obviously knows the subject, but I have to be honest—sometimes I couldn’t understand her through that accent. She could at least speak slower. . . .
• I would have liked a little heads up about the calculus—had I known there were going to be some calc problems I would have dusted off my calc text over Christmas. . . .
• Dr. Greenberg’s Power Points were kind of boring. If all he’s going to do is repeat what the slides say, why not just the put the slides online so we don’t have to come to his lectures. . . .
• The one quirk about Dr. Matthews was the way he’d just sit there after he asked a question and nobody answered. It got kind of annoying. . . .
• I took CE 100 because I’m not sure EE is what I want to do. I’m convinced that CE is a lot closer to what I want to do. . . .
• Can someone do something about the temperature in the lecture hall? It was either 60 or 80. 70 would be a nice compromise. . . .
• I busted my hump studying for the tests and still did lousy. This other guy I know put in half the work and got an A. Fair? . . .
• I thought my instructor was going to be a total nerd (lose the bow tie, dude), but he really turned out to be a cool guy. . . .
• The best part of the course was Dr. Patel—it’s refreshing to see a woman with all that industrial experience. Her real-life stories were the highlight of the course, for me as a woman, anyway. . . .
• Just a thought—how come Mr. Warren gets to come to class 5 minutes late most of the time but I don’t. . . .
• My recommendation is to do this evaluation earlier in the semester so the teacher can learn what he’s doing wrong and fix it. . . .