Reviews of professor Marit MacArthur

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
She is a great writing prof and really cares about helping students. Class is always just looking at examples of assignments and working in pairs, but it is very helpful. To do well just go to her office hours and she will read your draft papers. This class is a lot of work, but difficult. Highly recommend as most people get at least a B.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I had her for UWP101 and I LOVED her. She's fair with grading (and pretty easy in my opinion). She's helpful and provides good feedback for any writing you do in or outside of class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Yes she goes over example papers but doesnt give guidelines on how to do them, as if you should just know. Basically no online instructions either. Canvas files are horribly organized, it's impossible to find assignments, due dates, etc. She has really high expectations and can be condescending and rude. Something due every class. Tons of work

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Assignments are tedious and her grading is too harsh for what the class is meant to be. Gives high Bs - low As at best for most of the assignments. She also cares too much about chatGPT and herself, rather than her students.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Solid professor. Grades for assignments based on the whole class averaged to around a B but she rarely gives A+.The assignments can take a lot of work and peer reviews are tedious but overall as long as you put in effort in the class you'll be fine.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
You look at example assignments every class, peer review them as a class, and then do the assignment so very helpful and straightforward tasks. Wants to help students and OH are very helpful. Not a look of work for a writing class, so if you don't like writing like me, take it. Minimal effort that helped improve my future writing

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Marit is one of the best professors at UC Davis. She is very kind and genuinely wants you to do well. She provides a lot of examples to help you out on the assignments. She provides a lot of helpful office hours. The assignments are easy but time-consuming. As long as you follow the examples you should get an A. This class is super useful.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
really solid prof, i was completely out of it from a couple bad quarters but she made the content as interesting as possible and made me care and apply myself. she gave a bunch of different assignments that seemed daunting but it was all fine as long you put in effort. also one of the only classes i see myself referring to after my time here

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Great professor who knows how to make this class useful. She posts clear grading rubrics for her assignments and examples of them from previous quarters. As long as you stay engaged and on top of the draft deadlines it's an easy A or B. Make use of her office hours and stay ahead on the assignments. Only issue is she does not update canvas often.