As a student who transferred from community college, I'm a bit shocked by how little feedback I get on papers/written assignments. In the past I've done well in terms of the grades I receive, and there is not a huge change in that now, but when I get docked points there is often no feedback on what I did wrong or I lose points based on reasoning that was not made clear in the grading rubric. Maybe its just the classes I'm in this semester. But for one course specifically, the expectations are borderline incomprehensible from the Professor.

For example, after asking something like "Would this framework for the upcoming paper be too complex based on how you mentioned in class that we shouldn't go beyond two steps in analyzing the theories?" they took a moment to really look at my drafted framework and responded, "is this what you would want to turn in?" ... (it's a drafted framework, the next submission is the paper). Then they deflected every follow-up question I had, leaving our group super confused. This was on a class day where we were supposed to work on our papers.

Has anyone else had similar experiences?