I really enjoyed this class with Professor Lisovsky! The readings were all interesting, and the course did a great job of improving our writing skills. The professor was extremely invested, empathetic, and genuine. The reading/writing requirements are pretty reasonable, and he grades pretty generously. There are two non-cumulative midterms, and both are doable if you study properly for them. All in all, the class was a fairly easy A, even for a South Campus kid like me!

Writing this review here because if you happen to look up Engcomp6W on bruin walk and you're taking it with INGRID NORRMANN-VIGIL, DROP HER CLASS ASAP! She's the worst professor I've had in all of undergrad and I feel the need to warn everyone about how ruthless, rude, and inconsiderate of a professor she is. Avoid her at all cost! She's given me so much stress and anxiety over the quarter and she is just so terrible. If you care about your mental health, do not take her class.

I seriously don't know how people got A's in this class because it was one of the hardest classes I ever took at UCLA. In total of revising papers we wrote 6 essays and had a midterm and a final. And I still got a C+ after all the revisions which I manage to get a B on, he grades too harshly and Im just thankful for finishing this class without failing.

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Contrary to what the other reviewer said, this class is not an "easy A." Lisovsky only has his master's and seems to make up for his lack of credentials by being a hard ass when it comes to grading. That being said, he's a wonderful teacher (a lot of master's only professors tend to be). He's passionate about the subject material and genuinely loves teaching metaphor. You'll come away from the class with a newfound appreciation for language, even despite the boring grammar lessons from Newby's Structure of English.

He allows you one re-grade per essay, and you can go into office hours. I bumped two essays from an 88 to a 93 respectively. I worked my ass off on the final paper and got a 95, doing similarly on the midterm and final exam (both relatively easy if you come to class and review your notes). You can get an A- or B+ easily, but you would have to work for an A - participation, office hours, getting into his mindset - he's a big grammar stickler (no shit as an English prof). Sometimes he seems like a petulant man-child when it comes to his preferences for turns of phrase, but if you want an A you can certainly tailor your prose to his liking.

He is very scatterbrained and tends to post office hours and change homework and exam times on the fly. This can be good or bad for you depending on how type A you are and how stressful your other classes are.

Professor Lisovsky is super considerate of the need of his students and is willing to grant extensions and adjust the workload for some circumstances. His class is mostly grammar so if you're a native english speaker it all might be super redundant, which gets somewhat boring but is also a huge plus when it comes to studying because it's a lot of common sense.

The class is composed of 3 papers (around 10-11 pages total) and a midterm + final, plus some readings and reading questions that he collects every two to three weeks. You get study guides for both the midterm and the final in the form of weekly quizzes that you get to solve with a team he predetermines. Definitely an easy A if you go to office hours and seem interested during class. I missed a few lectures and still managed to get an A, so it's not impossible. I would definitely take another class with him.

Try to find the course reader used if you don't mind other people's highlighting. He says he changes it every quarter but the differences are minimal and you might be able to get away with looking at your table mates' reading assignments if he does make big changes. He'll post most readings online on CCLE anyways.