>"The class was originally created because some of the Cal Poly's teachers were tired of the project that students were given at the time for the Technical Writing for Engineers class"

That is not true, iFixIt CAME to the english department to ask for free content for their website but covered it as a "great technical writing experience."

>"Most of the responses from teachers and students has been positive now that we have been running the program for two years."

Uhhhh where are you getting your responses? Most people will give good reviews since YOU MAKE OUR GRADE. If you report to our teachers that we did a bad job, WE FAIL. Of course we will say we enjoyed it since you control our fate. I think its crazy that iFixIt has control over students grades.

>"and want to write a twenty page paper instead"

That is not standard practice in ANY 149 class. There is a final project but 20 pages? Thats extremely class-dependent!

Edit: and their standards are EXTREMELY high. We have to go way out of our way to meet them. Perfect cameras, perfect room lighting, perfect hands to hold the devices, perfect backgrounds... Many times we were forced to redo our guides and go well over the bounds of a 100 level class....all so iFixit could benefit financially.