Selling the course reader for 10$
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A lot of people complain about her class, but it really isn't that bad. As long as you are a decent writer going into this it'll be fine. She structures the class so the entire quarter you focus on writing one research paper. by week 8 you're pretty much done with everything. Be warned that the course reader seems formidable clocking in at 400 pages but you really only need to read it in depth for the articles that you will be focusing your writing around. Everything else you can briefly skim to write your summary on, and you won't be responsible for that material anyway. I always found that she was actually helpful in office hours as long as you go in with specific questions about your writing. She is more than willing to read it over and point you in the right direction. Make sure your research topic is actually interesting to you (more importantly interesting to her as well), so you don't hate yourself for spending so much time watching it. The class is based on linguistic analysis which focuses on HOW people say something rather than just what they say which can be difficult for some to grasp. IF that's the case go to her early on and express that concern, and Im sure shell help point you in the right direction. She gives detailed rubrics for what she is going to look for, and she lectures on how to construct the various sections of the paper. Honestly, her class isn't that bad and you should be fine in it if you actually put in the effort to write well.

Actually took her for Eng.Comp.6W:
Worst professor I have taken in my 4 years at UCLA. She has done her PhD in linguistics and she completely formed the class based on her obsession with her PhD dissertation rather than the actual class requirements. Its an english composition class, not a linguistics class. If I wanted to take linguistics I would have. She is the worst. I have never written a review about a professor until now, but I feel the need to do so for this professor. Avoid her at all costs.

Don't take her class.
Her class will shorten your life expectancy by at least a decade. She has approximately 40 different "stylistic" factors that she takes points off for a 30 point essay. Well I am not even gonna talk about her rubric for the content criteria. Her goal seems not to focused on teaching students. Rather, the class seems to be driven by the instructor's sadistic need to torment students. (I participated, by that I mean read material beforehand and actually participated in debate very enthusiastically, but at the end, I found out that out of 10 participation grade she assigns for every single class, she would never, not even a single time, give a perfect score for participation, but always a nine at the best. This truly reflects her tendency. She does not want to give you good grades. She seems to be thinking that giving good grade somehow drops her status as a professor?) I probably learned a lot. However, I am telling you. Not worth it if you are just trying to satisfy your graduation requirement.
Of course you will be able to get A if you try really hard. But she actually says this at the beginning of the instruction, she wants you to spend at least 20 hours a week for her class. No disrespect, but her class is not even close to being one of the most useful or important classes at UCLA. 20 hours a week...? seriously think about it again before you take this extremely self absorbed instructor's class.(amount of respect she demands, and I am telling you I come from South Korean public education, so I know all that physical discipline, respect for teacher and all that shit in one of the most extreme forms, is truly insane. She seems to be having some kind of obsession on having patriarchal control over the whole class. She explicitly says that leaving early or coming late(even like 10 mins, lecture was 3 hours), even if it is due to class conflict, is a sign of disrespect and points will be deducted. I took her class during my last senior summer and if it weren't for her class, I can say for sure, my summer would have been so much better.

Actually took her for Eng.Comp.6W. The workload is way too much, and totally not worth it. The class literally has 10-12 graded components, its actually insane. I would never take another class with this professor. She is one of the professors who feels that her class has to be the center of your life and purposely makes it out of this world demanding.