Reviews of professor Joshua Paiz

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Paiz is hilarious and fostered a very positive class environment. Just be ready to do a painful amount of writing and reading. I certainly put more work into this class than all of my others combined. The 13-page final paper and final oral assessment were 50% of the grade. I could only recommend this course if you really like writing.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Easy to catch up, but requires a lot of work. Bit hard if you are someone who has a problem in language or writing.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took EAP6000 with Dr. Joshua. The professor instantly became one of my favourites. Highly professional and knowledgeable of their field and other fields as well! Being in a class with Dr. Paiz is a privilege. Get your work done on time and you are good to go. I was never bored in their classes ever. My only regret is I took it in summer.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I wish I didn't have to take this class. I feel like it didn't really help me improving my writing skills, I just learned a couple of things. I feel bad because Doctor Paiz is really caring and available, but I just didn't like the class structure and the assignments. I didn't like the major assignments prompts at all. Overall easy class for me.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Good professor, gives lots of feedback and extra credit. Grade includes 1 paper, an annotated bibliography, 15+ page research paper, 1 oral exam, 6 journals, and 5 discussion boards. Lots of work that isn't necessarily hard, just time consuming. The course requires 2 books (which you do not necessarily need to fully read to do well in the class).

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is friendly and humorous. The course is content-rich, yet easy to follow. We had many fun exercises and he gave many inspirational speeches. I learned many useful principles of writing with him. I strongly recommend him for English as Second Language students.