ENGL BC3101

1-3 readings per class + a brief (200-300 words, usually) Padlet response before class. 3 5-7 page papers + conference with the professor & a peer group about each paper. Work with 3-4 students in an attached class on 2 papers for First Year Writing. Staff the Writing Center for 1h per week starting in November. Not a particularly light class but very fulfilling!

I can't believe no one has written about her yet. She is fabulous, articulate, sweet, and intelligent. I loved her and her class. If she seems like a tough grader or critical, it's only because she expects a lot from her students and really cares.

What a wonderful professor! Prof. Cobrin is so caring and considerate towards her students & truly wants to see everyone succeed. The readings she assigns, while dense, are genuinely interesting & she facilitates very engaging in-class discussions about them. I found Writer's Process to be a very practical blend of applicable real-world practicum & theoretical pedagogy.

- Read 1-3 articles/essays/chapters prior to each class discussion - Provide a (brief) Padlet reading response for each class (see below) - Write 3, approximately 5-7 page papers over the course of the semester - Meet with either Professor Cobrin or Professor Watson to conference about each paper (~1-2 hours total) - Meet with your peers to conference about each paper (~10 or more hours total) - Work with ~5 students in an attached class on 2 papers (~15 hours total) - Staff the Writing Center for one hour per week, starting in mid/late Fall (~5-6 hours total) Essay 1 is worth 20%, Essay 2 is worth 25%, and Essay 3 is worth 30%. Padlet posts are worth 10% (and are graded as complete/incomplete). Participation is worth 15%.

This class was required to become a writing fellow at Barnard. I took the class since I was accepted as a writing fellow and wanted to be a part of the program. The class includes a lot of work outside of the class itself -- you have to meet 3 times with a group of students from the class to review each other's essays, you have to fellow an attached first-year writing class, and have a weekly hour in the "cube" after the first few weeks. The work is pretty rewarding and the class itself is laid back. If you're interested in being a writing fellow, you have to take the class but just be prepared to be essentially working as a writing fellow after the first few weeks (unpaid throughout the course of the semester though because it is technically "class work").

short, yet sometimes boring, articles: about 4-5 a week; three essays, which rewrites, journals, and LOTS of outside training (working with first years).

while i find it kind of funny writing a review for this class, and you have no choice but to take this class to become a fellow, i thought i might as well anyway. there were parts of this whole experience that i loved, and parts that i did not really enjoy. i loved the practical aspects of the course, which go along with training and meeting with first-year students. i loved learning techniques on how to properly look at the paper. i can honestly say that this class was so important to me, as i have greatly changed as a writer (for the better!) and i understand myself more as a student now than before. the whole experience was so positive for me. pam is also such an amazing instructor who really cares about her students; this is evident in her dedication to the center, as well as her presence in class and in conferences. i don't think i have ever had a teacher so engaged in my writing, especially since the essays were so short. but there were aspects of the class that were not as wonderful. personally, i found some of the readings a little boring, because i am not that passionate about the philosophy of teaching and learning. another thing about the whole process that i did not know coming into the job of fellowing: this class, while three credits, asks for work that is more like a 4 or 5 credit class. there is a lot of practical "training" that we as writing fellows in traini…