Reviews of professor Alison Williams

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
prof williams was great and she really cared about developing the students' writing. the class could be a lot of work at times, but the material was super interesting so it never felt overwhelming! writ107m has been my favorite class at ucsb so far. definitely recommend if you're interested in magazine writing or just creative writing in general!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Completely unprofessional. She was outright rude to students on a public forum and said things like "I'm only reading this because I have to" and "are you allergic to paragraphs". She was completely arrogant and condescending. Not to mention the work was overwhelming with little to no feedback besides rude comments.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
RUN FAR AWAY. She ALWAYS went off on a tangent. Literally one girl asked a question and she spent the entire class answering it ToT. The due dates were confusing, her class was unorganized. She didn't follow her own course schedule, didn't even explain the assignments. Don't take her class ToT

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
She was so great! Class was long (2 hours) but she made it go by pretty quick. Definitely a lot of work but Alison is a pretty chill grader. There are readings she assigns every week. You can get by if you just skim through them. Essays were pretty abstract but once you got going, they became easy to write. Definitely a solid choice, mostly easy A.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
taking this class showed me why PR is a dying industry.

lecture = unorganized rambling. you'll wish you had a clone to sit in for you. if someone asks a question she'll talk about 5 other different things for 20 minutes to answer. reading responses have confusing due dates (she acknowledged this and changed stuff around, so that's good at least).

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Sitting in class for 2 hours was boring but Prof Williams seemed to care about her students and would put in the time to help us. During class we would write short blog posts. All the writing/papers youd expect from a writing class but it was manageable. Prof sometimes gave feedback later than she said she would but it was usually helpful