<p>Do freshmen have to take writ140 during their fall semester?</p>
<p>Thx!</p>
<p>No, they do not have to. Many freshmen take WRIT 140 during the spring semester. Consult with your adviser to figure out the best schedule for you.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that there are sophomores who take WRIT 140 too.</p>
<p>I’m a fall admit who’s just about to finish WRIT 140, and I know there are sophomores in my Social Issues class, which is paired with WRIT 140. My WRIT 140 class is all fall admits and one spring admit, but I guess the spring semester classes are usually the other way around. One of my good friends won’t be taking WRIT 140 until fall of her sophomore year. It’s tough because it’s an 8-credit commitment, 4 for WRIT 140, 4 for the accompanying Social Issues (Cat VI GE) class, and not everyone has 8 units available their first semester.</p>
<p>:S my writing sucks…should i wait a semester or would it make a difference…is it easy to get good grades if i work hard?..cuz writing seems to have little to do with working hard to me…i still write crap</p>
<p>superdo1 Here is some advice When you take WRIT 140 go to the writing center on campus. They can help structure your essay. Once you have a rough draft go to your professor’s office hours and ask if you are on track. This is a hard class. You cannot wait until the last minute to write the essays.</p>
<p>oh boy…i guess i will make a home out of the writing center then :)</p>
<p>yeah, just be aware that when you go to the writing center you need to go with specific questions. if you hand them a 5 page rough draft of your paper and want them to look it over they’ll kick you out lol.</p>
<p>I took WRIT 140 in my first semester because it worked with my schedule better. My WRIT 140 teacher was really great and helped a lot of the students who were weak writers. Part of the class involves scheduling meetings outside of class with your teacher to discuss your papers/drafts. If you make an effort to come to these meetings prepared, you can work on your specific weaknesses before the paper is due.</p>
<p>Also, not that you should rely on it – but you are also usually given the option of rewriting a paper or two for a better grade at the end of the class. If you learn enough, it’s possible to improve your worst paper and raise your overall course grade.</p>
<p>I never used the writing center (I was a writing major) but I heard good things about it from those who weren’t awesome or interested in writing.</p>
<p>Is the writing prof the same every year? If not, can you tell me the name of that awesome prof u mentioned :D</p>
<p>There are TONS of different WRIT 140 sections that are assigned to your Category 6 GE, so you can’t really “pick” the teacher and they tend to change year to year; that’s because a majority of the WRIT 140 teachers are graduate/PhD students associated with the writing program. My WRIT 140 teacher already finished her PhD and is a professor on the East Coast!</p>
<p>Yeah, you can’t pick your WRIT 140 teacher, you just pick a section that works for your schedule and hope for the best. I lucked out and got a really good professor. </p>
<p>I never used the writing center either (not a writing major, but I did a ton of writing in high school because of the IB Diploma). Don’t know if I should admit this, but I definitely did pretty much every paper right before it was due, and I’ll probably get a B+. The final assignment, the portfolio, is a revision of a prior essay, an impromptu essay (don’t worry about it), and your fifth essay, which is based on a prompt that everyone in WRIT 140 that semester receives. But your revision of a prior paper does not raise that paper’s grade–if you got a C on it before, it’ll still be a C. But if your revision is graded to an A, and you get an A on your impromptu and A5 (fifth essay), then your portfolio grade will be an A. (If I understand it correctly.)</p>