<p>Why should we be afraid?</p>
<p>(1) Getting a teacher who gives broooooad topics causing you to struggle to find a way how to start the paper.
(2) Realizing that perhaps you shouldn’t be an English major after all.
(3) Realizing that perhaps you aren’t as great as a writer as you thought you were.
(4) The way that they taught you to write essays with analysis back in high school – WRONG, all wrong.
(5) Trying to make a connection between Harry Potter fan fiction sites and elephants.
(6) While typing your rough draft, you’re so conscious about whether you are writing too much summary and not enough analysis that you find yourself getting off track in your paragraph.
(7) It’s hard to BS and get away with it . . . unless you get some lenient teacher . . . but even then.
(8) “Not enough analysis”
(9) You finish your essay but find that you have only typed 4 pages worth instead of 5, so you get desperate and start to BS and pray that you can get away with it.
(10) “Too much summary”
(11) You find yourself “screwing” with the margin settings in “Word” while typing your final paper because you had to omit a chunk of information in response to your teacher’s editing. And you’re desperate at this moment and give up.</p>
<p>Do you have your old syllabus?</p>
<p>I have it somewhere (eh, it might take me a while to dig it up from what ever notebook or binder it’s buried in), but remember that there are a lot of teachers for expos, so the syllabus will vary.</p>
<p>You shouldn’t. Its the basic writing class that every student at Rutgers has to take.</p>
<p>use ratemyprofessors.com before you choose the teacher and you should be ok</p>
<p>how can you “choose” your professor?</p>
<p>when you sign up for classes or does Rutgers not allow that for freshman…</p>
<p>I doubt it.</p>
<p>well this isnt high school. you are allowed to pick what classes you want, what days, what times and with what teacher…</p>
<p>my old school I was allowed to do that even as an incoming freshman. Rutgers doesnt really do things well so they might not but I wouldnt know…</p>
<p>Can you take a college English 101 course at a local college during the summer, and transfer the credits in lieu of this course? People seem to really hate it!</p>
<p>It’s a junk course where you don’t learn anything. I never took it, but all I know is most of these people in 200-300 level courses don’t even know how to head an MLA paper.</p>
<p>Do you have to take Expository writing if you take another Eng 101 course during the summer and transfer your credits? Has anyone done this at a local community college?</p>