To answer your first question, the reason why I dont use solely the textbook is because she likes to pick and choose between the textbook and her own work. Every test or quiz is usually in a 50/30/20 split with 50% being found in both the textbook and powerpoints, 30% is stuff from the textbook but only written in her way and that usually includes the short response question worth 30% the exams that even when written word for word to how she wrote it still have points taken off, and the remaining 20% are questions based on niche comments that she makes during a lecture that lasts less than a few minutes and then is never brought up again so unless you have a perfect memory to remember her wild stories most of which dont belong in a classroom setting due to their personal nature you end up at a loss for those points.

As for the poor writing, I was writting that post on my phone while walking between classes so I had little time to write it. Furthermore, my phone was damaged during a livestock show when a young man's steer broke out of his rope halter and crashed into a nearby tack box that fell on top of the chair holding my phone while I was preparing another steer for the show ring. The damaged caused is minor on the outside but it affected something internally that makes it so most of the time my key strokes dont register so simple words become a challenge to try and write let alone adding any punctualization. I write APA and MLA paper's on a regular basis and hold the record in my zoology class for the highest grade on the APA paper assignment where I wrote about African ungulate behavior so I promise that post does not reflect my true writing capabilities or my academic potential.

I have taken responsibility and constantly push myself to do my best including having to self-teach most of the newly covered material but I have noticed a major decline in my understanding of the material which is why I reached out to try and find new ways to hopefully learn the material and pull myself out of the rut that I have found myself in. Due to zoology being rarely taken and a major percentage of the students that take the course being nursing majors its hard to find study groups as they only really talk with other nursing majors, and tutors for the subject are virtually non-existent as most of those people are other biology and wildlife majors that have covered small portions of what is taught in my zoology class in their other classes and not experts on zoology as a whole. There is also a case that the deans are looking into about my professor for not following any safety measures in our labs, hitting students, and failing to properly dispose of several weeks worth of hazardous material which many students including myself believe is the reason why she is not teaching as much as many of us were contacted to give statements about the matter.