Fall 2025 Class: Essay Writing A

Basis for Rating: The teacher was outstanding. She really placed the material in a context to better understand it.Review: The lessons on condensation were extremely useful. They taught me how to condense long and extensive writing into very small and simple sentences that still conveyed the same idea or topic. 

Basis for Rating: I very much enjoyed this course as it taught me how to formulaically write a five paragraph essay. I also enjoyed what we wrote about in our essays; the writing made me think more deeply about what I had read in other courses.Review: In EWR-A, I learned that there is no writing, only rewriting. I had a lot of trouble getting words down on a page until this course. Here, I learned that musing exercises, where I would set my pen to paper and write whatever came to mind about the subject, very much helped me organize my scattered thoughts. Great writing can come from unorganized ideas, but they must be turned into categorized topics and subtopics. Jensen's Format Writing, by Frode Jensen, was especially helpful in this. In the book, he gives a method of construction for each type of paragraph, something I found vital in the writing process. another tool in writing that I especially loved is the formation of thesis statements. Having personal trouble with thesis statements, Jensen's six guidelines for a good thesis improved my thesis statements and cut time out of the writing process.