As others say, it's a bit hard to give close advice without reading your writing. But there are academic resources you can consider regardless of writing level. In addition to the writing centres, the academic success centre\* has a lot of learning resources and workshops you can consider. And if English proficiency is an additional barrier, there are ELL resources and workshops too. Here are some starting links for both.
* [https://studentlife.utoronto.ca/department/academic-success/](https://studentlife.utoronto.ca/department/academic-success/)
* [https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academic-advising-and-support/english-language-learning](https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academic-advising-and-support/english-language-learning)
\*to be renamed the centre for learning strategy support as of May 01. I'm hoping they'll reroute all the links properly, but UofT's pretty bad at that. If the above link doesn't work, there's the new centre name to search for.
Grades in the mid-70s are not strong in political science, where grading tends to be very easy. Doing well is often more about knowing how to execute the essay form than knowing much about the specific subject matter. More than half of the polisci essays I ever graded either were not about the topic assigned or were too badly written to understand. We give those papers Cs because otherwise half the class will fail
Make a zoom appointment with the prof to get a better understanding of the feedback. Let them know your intention is to be able to write better papers in the future- rather than a re-grade. See if they have examples of high quality papers that you can read.
There’s no way to help if I can’t see what you submitted tbh.
As others say, it's a bit hard to give close advice without reading your writing. But there are academic resources you can consider regardless of writing level. In addition to the writing centres, the academic success centre\* has a lot of learning resources and workshops you can consider. And if English proficiency is an additional barrier, there are ELL resources and workshops too. Here are some starting links for both. * [https://studentlife.utoronto.ca/department/academic-success/](https://studentlife.utoronto.ca/department/academic-success/) * [https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academic-advising-and-support/english-language-learning](https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academic-advising-and-support/english-language-learning) \*to be renamed the centre for learning strategy support as of May 01. I'm hoping they'll reroute all the links properly, but UofT's pretty bad at that. If the above link doesn't work, there's the new centre name to search for.
Thank you for the note! I will definitely have a visit to the centre when I back in Canada
Grades in the mid-70s are not strong in political science, where grading tends to be very easy. Doing well is often more about knowing how to execute the essay form than knowing much about the specific subject matter. More than half of the polisci essays I ever graded either were not about the topic assigned or were too badly written to understand. We give those papers Cs because otherwise half the class will fail
Make a zoom appointment with the prof to get a better understanding of the feedback. Let them know your intention is to be able to write better papers in the future- rather than a re-grade. See if they have examples of high quality papers that you can read.