Professor gives rude comments on paper, my response?

[goofball]

I wrote a very shoddy paper and emailed it to my professor yesterday. It's not like I can't write good papers, but I was under the impression that the write-up was not the important part of the project. Clearly I was wrong. I got it back with some of the following comments:

In the he email he wrote that I would have to do more for a passing grade. Fine, whatever, I take no offense. In the attached document he left the following comments:

"Did you read what you wrote?" (in response to a left out word)
"All of what? in Africa? Las Vegas??" (in reponse to me saying he pooled all the census data (he used U.S. census but i didn't say that explicitly)
"CAN YOU READ?? DO YOU WANT TO FLY WITH A PILOT WHO LEAVES THINGS OUT?" (in response to a left out word 'to')

I rewrote it and will send it back to him shortly (fortunately I turned it in early) but now that that's over:
what's my response? Once the semester is over I figure I have four options.

1) Ignore it
2) Write him a calmly worded email explaining how nonconstructive his criticism was.
3) Write the email and CC it to the department chair
4) Send the letter directly to the department chair
5) Have sex with his wife.


I'm not sure if it matter but he is truly a terrible teacher. He's disorganized, long winded and obtuse. He never rarely gives feedback and never gives clear instructions. Perfect example is my partner (who's a much more diligent student than me) had the same thought on the importance of the write-up and signed off on the crappy version without hesitation.

[Fedfan691]

I wouldn't be offended by any of the things he wrote, so I would just choose number 5 for fun.

[whodaman]

your overreacting... his comments may not have been choice.. but he probably got pissed at spending a half hour grading shoddy work.

[yellowjack]

2 & 3 (Calmly worded email to him and department chair, making sure you keep his original reply in your email)

5 if you have time

[Misfire]

Do you not have student reviews at the end of the semester? At my school we got more than one prof fired with our feedback.

[TheTourist]

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5) Have sex with his daughter .


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FYP

[TIEdup14]

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I wrote a very shoddy paper and was told the non-sugarcoated truth

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a rare TIE fyp

[mikeczyz]

you're totally overreacting. if you write a crap paper, you deserve to be called on it. no biggie. learn your lesson and move on.

I wish there were more teachers out there like this...

[Hey_Porter]

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you're totally overreacting. if you write a crap paper, you deserve to be called on it. no biggie. learn your lesson and move on.

I wish there were more teachers out there like this...

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I agree. I might understand a reaction if you told us that you tried really hard, and gave your best effort, but to be offended when he calls you on your admittedly shoddy work is lame. The best professor I ever had was "rude" (by your definition). In the margins of the introduction to the first paper I ever wrote for her, she commented "this intro. is horrible; I hope the rest of the paper isn't like this." I took her for three more semesters, and never worked harder for another professor.

[rocketlaunch]

5 if you can. 1, otherwise.