I took this as one of my first classes at UCLA and I don't think I could find a professor that cares more about her students than Peggy does. She engages students and helps you create amazing writing skills in just a quarter.

She is super nice and actually cares about her students. If you reach out for help, she will do whatever she can to help you succeed.

TAKE THIS CLASS

Peggy is the first professor who makes me want to write a evaluation for her. Her personality is so nice that you want to keep in touch with her even after the class. She is humorous in class. She is more like a friend instead of a strict professor. Definitely should choose her for your EC3 class!!!!!

Wow, where do I start? Peggy was the most awesome, relevant, concerned and effective professor I've ever had at UCLA. Honestly I wasn't expecting much out of this class, and taking it during summer made me go into it not wanting to be there more than anything. After the first two classes, I actually started looking forward to summer school. Peggy brings in relevant topics and articles and lets us have fun while analyzing writing and learning what we can do to make our papers better. Engcomp 3 consisted of three essays, and for each one we had the opportunity to not only get her feedback, but we did an in-class peer review so you can get feedback on your paper from two classmates as well. She is lenient with what you choose to write about, within reason, which makes it a lot more enjoyable to write. She also lets you write conversationally, and doesn't insist that you follow stupid rules like not being able to use contractions or 2nd-person references.

Peggy is amazing and I just hope I get to take another one of her classes again.

She is one of the best professors I've had at UCLA.

1. She asks you to call her Peggy on the first day.
2. She cares about student learning.
3. You only have two writing assignments (an executive summary and an opinion editorial), but you get to turn in a first draft which is ungraded and then conference with her about improvements after which you revise and turn in a final draft.
4. You only do two short presentations in front of the class which are both pretty easy.
5. The rest of the quarter is based on reading short interesting articles about relevant social issues and then discussing them in class.

She's an absolutely wonderful professor. She hugged every one of us on our way out of the last class yesterday.

Professor Davis goes by Peggy and is super cool. At first I thought she was kind of annoying because her teaching style is VERY animated and she makes a lot of funny voices and reminds me of a cartoon character but when you get used to it its entertaining. She really cares about helping her students grow as writers and she focuses on what matters as far grading rather than trying to screw people over. The class was a very informal discussion where we talked about different short articles we read from the course reader pretty much the whole time. There were 3 assigned papers that were straightforward and graded fairly, and a journal assignment for the whole quarter that could be checked randomly. If you have to take engcomp 3, take it with Peggy. She rocks.

If you have to take this class, TAKE IT WITH DAVIS aka Peggy!! She is funny, helpful, and her class is almost always enjoyable. For the most part, each class consists of a student led discussion, and the topics are interesting! Participation is a big part of your grade so if you're not a big talker then you may want to stay away. The topics focus on pop culture so you get to read and write about current things. You only have to write 3 essays in the entire quarter and she will meet with you individually and help you the whole way. As far as the prompts go, she leaves a lot of room for creativity and you can write about virtually anything you want. She teaches you how to write in more human way versus the academic writing we've all grown up with. This class will help you find your writing voice which in turn will make writing a more enjoyable experience. The workload throughout the week is very light. You just have to read a couple short articles that are almost always interesting and controversial. These readings are mandatory as they guide the class discussion for the week. But it's worth it because the discussions end up being interesting and thought provoking. I was not looking forward to taking ENGCOMP 3 but I enjoyed Peggy's class very much! Take this class and you won't regret it.

Professor Davis is extremely enthusiastic, passionate, and dedicated to teaching her students. She had us read various articles throughout the quarter, all of which were very interesting! She loves to have engaging in-class discussions and she also appreciates it when people participate. Davis is easy-going and she holds a lot of extra office hours during the weeks when we are revising our papers, go to her office hours because she is very helpful! She is also funny and full of life which in turn motivates her students to do well in her class. Overall, she is an amazing professor and I HIGHLY recommend her for English Comp 3.

I really enjoyed taking English Comp 3 with Davis. Her reading assignments are fairly short and very interesting, which make discussions engaging. (She once had us read a David Sedaris essay!) There are a couple of short writing assignments and 3 papers (~5 pages max for each) throughout the quarter. The paper prompts are pretty general and give you a lot of freedom in choosing what to write. She definitely appreciates creativity and humor so try to find unique things to write about and put some personality into your papers. I also encourage you to visit her during office hours to discuss your paper (especially after doing in-class peer-review) because she’s very helpful. Oh yeah, try to participate in class discussions as much as possible because she grades you on it.