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Professor Goldman is an amazing professor and this class is unlike any other I've taken at UCLA. It's a small seminar so she can really teach us how to write. As a comm major, I wish more classes in the communications department were like this -- practical skills for journalists. And the professor was truly there to help us learn.

It's intense because you're writing an article each week, but anyone interested in journalism or writing should take this class. It hones your skills and makes you think about each word you use.

She uses anonymous grading which was fair (and great because the class is really about improving yourself so it's nice to know where you stand). I went to her office hours a lot and it was SUPER helpful to read her my work. She's welcoming to students and really cares about our learning.

Abbe is an incredible professor. She was one of the first where I felt like the student-teacher relationship was just easy and not intimidating, tough or scary. As long as you do the work and follow all the rules (and there are a LOT of rules) down to a tee, you'll be totally fine. I loved the small-group setting because I'm usually afraid to speak up in larger classes, so participating was easier for me. The anonymous grading helped a lot too – since there were a lot of people in the class that Abbe knew from before, the anonymous grading took out the bias and made everything a lot more fair. Overall, definitely take this class! My writing is so much clearer and more concise now, and I'd say the work was definitely worth it.

This is one of my favorite classes I have taken at UCLA. Abbe is an incredible instructor and I can guarantee that you will come out of this class with new insight and skills. She's an incredibly tough grader, but she provides you with all of the tools you need to be successful. You are assigned a paper to write at the beginning of each week and it is due the following class. She expects clear, concise and meaningful writing. The prompts include a Ledes assignment, a Vignette, a Profile, an Opinion piece, a Breaking News piece (she provides the "news"), a Public Relations piece, and -- potentially -- a Science piece. What she expects from each assignment is very clear and she is unbelievably good at meeting with students to help them. She wants you to do well and gives you every opportunity to succeed. The class is not easy, but if you listen to her feedback and trust what she tells you, you will leave this class a much better writer and thinker. She also grades anonymously which is great because your work is the only thing that matters.