Grading Breakdown:
- One-Sheets: 10%
- SWOT (group): 15%
- Participation: 20%
- Op-Ed (individual): 20%
- Business Plan (group): 35%

Juliano is a great professor and person. Her lectures are engaging and she focuses on the areas of business writing that are often overlooked, which was helpful. Her syllabus/instructions are often unclear, but she’ll clarify if you ask her.

The main focus of the class was the business plan, which we worked on for the entirety of the course. The first half of the quarter unfolds very slowly, then the second half rapidly snowballs with all of the assignments and projects due in the last two weeks of class. Presentations for the business plan, op-ed, and SWOT analysis are done consecutively, so there isn’t a lot of time to focus on your op-ed and SWOT analysis.

I’d suggest that you do the one-sheets right away (minimum is 5, so you’d be done by week 3) and think about your op-ed ahead of time. The business plan is time-consuming and the SWOT analysis is based on another group’s business plan, so there’s nothing you can do about those beforehand. She also chooses the business plan groups on the first day, so hope that you’re with people you can stand because you’re stuck with them for 2.5 months.

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The professor is not easy on you, but for good reason. After taking this course, I feel as though my writing and understanding of how to write has greatly improved. It feels discouraging in the beginning, as the rough draft is graded (though not inputted into the grade book) to show if you are on track with the first essay assignment. Most everyone would do poorly. Just make sure you do the (usually) bi-weekly reading logs to the best of your ability (hopefully scoring extra credit points as you do so), engage in class, and be willing to accept and ask for criticism. It was rough, no doubt. At the same time, I could not have asked for a better professor.

Honestly worst professor on campus.
Way too tough for an English Composition class and grades very very strictly.
Did learn some stuff but apart from that she's just a very bad professor.
DO NOT TAKE HER.

Professor Juliano was quite a good writing teacher. She led thought-provoking discussion and gave fairly interesting assignments.

While the other reviewer was correct that she is somewhat of a hardsh grader, she is quite fair and clear about her expectations. Participation and showing up to class on time is very important if you want to get a good grade. Also, make sure to meet her in office hours for your essay. She gave me a lot of ideas on how to improve my essays. She's very approachable and wants to help.

The class is a small class (around 20 people), and attendance is required. I had to miss a day and was asked to bring in a sick note if I didn't want to lose credit for what I missed. Before every lecture there was assigned reading, which was often a lot of reading, but some of the articles were interesting; during class you would be asked to answer questions about the reading and turn it in but they were not graded harshly. We had to write 3 essays in this class and turn in drafts. The drafts were not graded for credit, but I would recommend turning in a good draft because she makes a ton of edits that are helpful for the final paper. We also did peer review sessions in class and it was helpful to have classmates look over a completed draft .The essays were based off of the class readings and the prompts were kind of confusing and vague, which I often found very frustrating. However, she does offer a lot of guidance and gives you a lot of creative freedom. I think my friends took easier English comp classes, because I found this class very time consuming. But I did end up with a good grade and was overall pleased.

I really liked this class despite it being a bit tough. I thought the professor was very interesting and kind and she knew how to help students succeed.

Professor Juliano's teaching and grading styles are very straightforward. While it is true that students don't often do as well as they hope in the beginning of the quarter, Linzi is very willing to help students and explain concepts until you improve; thus, students see great improvement in their writing/grade as the quarter goes on. The assignments that are not papers are easy and help your grade too. As long as you make sure to include what she describes in class, you are free to write and discuss almost any topic. I think Linzi's class has helped my writing the most out of all other English/writing intensive classes I've had at school and I would highly recommend her.

The professor needs to tell the students what she actually wants in the essay and also teach material that would actually help us write better. Also she grades the essays like we are upper class english majors which most of the students in the class are not.

I was really scared of this class because of all the reviews she had saying she was hard and knowing that I am not a strong writer made it even scarier. And yes, this class was tough BUT it taught me a lot. I had to put a lot of effort into this class. I got a D- on the first essay so I was really scared I was going to do horrible in this class after that. But I feel like one of the reasons why I got a bad grade was because I was struggling yet I did not ask for help cause I was afraid to.

So I am telling anyone who takes this class now, IT REALLY HELPS to go to office hours. I went for the next essay and she helped me A LOT, I asked her a ton of questions. Sometimes I even asked the same question more than once cause I was still confused but hey it helped. If you show you want to improve, she will guide you as much as she can. Get as much help as you need.

Then there are other assignments that will boost your grade such as a presentation, debate (I was scared for this too, but it was not as bad as I thought it would be and I am a pretty shy person who does not like doing debates), reading responses and extra credit etc.

My point being, if you are like me who did have this professor as your first choice, don't be afraid. I struggled but I improved as I progressed throughout the quarter and actually ended getting an A- in the class which made me really happy. It is a good learning experience, and if you put in the effort you will be just fine.