Professor Vincent is a very nice guy and accommodating. We did not meet in class as often as I expected, but it was because Professor Vincent wanted to give us time to work on assignments. There were three major writing projects this quarter including an argumentative essay about a California Proposition in light of the election, a brochure about a nonprofit organization, and a group podcast. There were also small assignments where we read the online textbook and took mini quizzes that were graded on completion and read a few articles. The workload was heavy at first, but it got lighter at the end because Professor Vincent wanted to give us time to work on our writing projects. During lectures, we had discussions about the readings and with each other. I liked the discussions and Professor Vincent's insight, so I did wish we had more synchronous discussions during the quarter. The class itself was not hard because Professor Vincent cared more about our learning and improvement through peer reviews and feedback from himself. He used a grading contract in which you do the assignments on time and revise accordingly, and you will get at least a B or above. I personally did not like the grading contract because I did not know my grades for the entire quarter. Also, his instructions are pretty vague on assignments, so my classmates and I were often confused on how to do the assignments. He did not have a set office hour time, so email was the only way to communicate with him. Overall, the class is not hard, and you will need to put in effort to get an A. I liked the class, but was frustrated at times because of the unclear instructions for assignments.

Professor Vincent was one of the nicest professors I've met. He's super funny and loves what he teaches. I absolutely hate writing english essays which is why I thought this class had a heavier workload than I would have liked. He assigned 2-3 page papers every class meeting which is twice a week. But there is a lot of peer review writing which gives easy points. Make sure to participate in any way you can. He helped a lot with my writing by going to his office hours. I didn't do any of the reading but he did always warn us about giving out pop quizzes so it was a risk. He is really in touch with what he lectures which made the essay writing more enjoyable. Tbh it was an easy A as long as you put the work in. However, he did find out what Bruinwalk was this quarter and how people think he's an easy teacher so he might change the way he grades aka giving reading quizzes to scare his students.

This was a pretty good class, considering the low expectations with which I entered. I wasn't looking forward to having to do something to satisfy L&S's diversity and writing requirements, but I think that at the end, after I overcame my skepticism about basically everything involved with this class, I learned a fair bit about racism and writing techniques.

I would use one key phrase to characterize everything in this class: 'oddly specific'. A lot of the time, I was just wondering why we were reading whatever we were reading and why we were learning certain technical terms for writing techniques, but at the end, that didn't detract from the fact that there was some net learning.

The first few weeks were hard; we got tonnes of homework: each weekend, we had to write an essay which, though moderately short, was about a topic which most of us weren't particularly interested in. But after week 4 or so, it felt like there was almost no homework at all: you have to write about five different essays over the course of the quarter, one every week for the first three weeks, and then two more over the rest of the quarter (though you also had to do some significant revisions of the older essays). For the most part, all of this is reading articles about race (or watching movies) and responding with our own opinions, which could be about how we disagree with the author, or about some possible extension of the author's argument.

Donald's the main reason why I'd give this class a 4 overall: he's fun to talk to, he tries hard to get people to speak up (participation counts for a lot), even when they don't respond openly, and he clearly cares very deeply about the topics: has a lot of actual important stuff to say and he says it well. A cool thing about the class is that you sometimes get to talk to the authors of the articles which we analyze and respond to, either in person, or over a video call.

I highly recommend this class with this professor!! I am selling the required book for this class called Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts. **********