Reviews of professor Matthew Gallagher

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Gallagher's class was excellent and he is a caring and skilled lecturer. He obviously loves writing and teaching it. After the class, he wrote a great recommendation letter for me and I was accepted into a program at UConn that I had dreamed about. So it was a life-changing course for me and I'm very grateful for it.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The main positive thing was how passionate the instructor was about the course. I think he got through to us how important writing can be in all aspects. He also treated everyone with respect and encouraged us through all the assignments. His critiques were specific and helpful.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Learned a lot in my writing. I'm a BIO major, so probably wouldn't take again unless it was something more specific, maybe fiction or poetry. Prof gave good lectures, could find better ways to get discussions going, but material was good. He wrote a nice Christmas book I found out later on Amazon. Good, required class, writing not my interest.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is such a sweetheart (extremely caring and helpful). My class was cut short due to COVID-19. For this reason I was only graded on 4 papers. If class hadn't switched to online I am sure there would have been many more. The time I did spend in person was wonderful, lots of reading followed by a 4-5 page paper. Talk a lot and you'll be fine!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He looks great up there, lol, and has a wonderful speaking voice. That said, knows his stuff, and gives top notch feedback on all work. I felt like it was a strong process towards completing our final drafts. I did well - and writing was something I wanted to improve. I did and it was through Prof Gallagher's caring and good guidance.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
We did interesting projects in 1007 - an assignment based on Humans of New York that enabled me to interview some family and learned stories I didn't know. We presented these in class to our peers. It was pretty amazing. A lot of work, though. Prof Gallagher goes the extra mile, best way to put it. He's outstanding and always gets back to you.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Gallagher seems like a nice guy. He grades rather easy and he always finds something positive to say. With that being said, his assignments are all essays. Essays upon essays. His due dates come rather quickly. There is also a great deal of reading in this course with little time to actually digest what you've read. He nervously laughs a lot.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
BEST PROF EVER! I loved him sm!! His class was very simple he talks a lot but its always so interesting and always relates back to the subject. We only wrote one essay the whole semester the rest was like projects. He's really a great guy and so caring.