How "Intense" are the Writing-Intensive Courses?

teenage_cliche
Thu, 26 May 2011 10:23:40 +0000

Just adding onto previous posts - I took Reacting to the Past, in which we role-played various events in history, and all our essays were a) in character b) used/quoted the original texts we were reading in class c) persuasive and d) required some outside research. It was actually tremendously helpful to me, someone who is a very strong analytical writer, because it was a different kind of writing with a very explicit goal of persuading others that your research and character are worth listening to.

In terms of sheer length, we did 6 3-4 page essays during the semester. One every ~2 weeks.