English3 and UWP1

marzxbarz
Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:18:35 +0000

I’m currently taking UWP 1 and agree with what everyone’s said so far. It’s taught by graduate students. A typical day in class consists of a freewrite, discussion on assigned readings (there’s short homework on the assigned readings also), and discussion about something related to the readings. For my class, we have to write a total of four essays plus a final essay. We’re on our second one right now, which is definitely tougher than the previous (The first one we wrote about involved analyzing lyrics of a song, while the second one is focusing on how authors use rhetorical devices to prove their arguments in their articles).

I must say that since I’m not one to participate much in class, I find class time extremely tedious. I find myself looking at the time every so often, praying that class will soon be over.

The class is basically just essay writing. If you’re not an English major and need to fulfill your university writing requirement, I’d definitely suggest UWP over ENL 3.