This guy is nice but not accomodating to tardies or absences. I would not recommend taking this class but if you have to definitely do not schedule it right after another class. His policy is that every two tardies will lower your grade by an entire letter grade. This means that if you log into the zoom thirty seconds late or have any sort of technical problems you will be marked tardy with no questions asked. There is a lot of work for this class but it is not extremely difficult so just make sure you keep up and you will be fine.

Very approachable and helpful. Professor Crosby is very engaging and wants his students to do well. Most of the heavy lifting is done earlier on in the class leading up to the midterm which is a rhetorical analysis essay. Some busy work. Very fair grader, holds helpful office hours.

I liked Professor Crosby's teaching! You always knew exactly what he wanted writing wise. This is his second career, so he brings in a lot of insightful experiences that makes his lectures engaging. If you know MLA format and can write a good thesis statement, you're chillllling in this class.

Professor Crosby's class was enjoyable and relatively easy. As long as you follow his instructions on prompts exactly how he wants them, there is no reason for him not to give you an A. Also make sure you are never late to class and never miss class as that can impact your grade negatively.

Professor Crosby made this class worth every second! He cares so much about helping students improve their writing which is why he assigns a good amount of writing based assignments. UCLA needs more professors like Crosby who make class a comfortable and fun learning environment. I would 100% recommend this teacher.

Professor Shane Crosby represents the best of many worlds: he helps fulfill your English I requirement, he gives you a good grade, he doesn't give you that much work, and you ACTUALLY LEARN stuff from him. It's amazing, but this professor is literally a guaranteed A, as long as you don't do something stupid (like have 2 or more unexcused absences).

Workload is very generous. There are weekly assignments, but these are very easy, just a little time consuming. Make sure to do these, as you can only get a 70% maximum grade on that assignment if it's late! We were supposed to have two big papers for this class, but Professor Crosby mercifully lowered that to one paper only.

His lectures are highly engaging, and you learn stuff. Unlike high school English perhaps, you actually want to be there, and it's the same in the conferences. He's a very down-to-Earth type of person, who genuinely is interested in your life, how you're adjusting to college, and whatnot. Not afraid to cuss out in lecture; this just helps make him even more relatable to the students.

Seriously, as long as you follow all the guidelines that he provides to you, you will BREEZE through this class with an A. I shudder to think if there was anyone in my 22 person class that was in danger of an A- or below (Professor actually told us on the last day of lecture that he expected all of us to get As in the class).

Overall, HIGHLY recommend that you take his class. It's so worth it, you discuss about engaging topics (America currently, politics, global warming, racial and other stereotypes in society), learn lots of material, improve your writing, all the while earning an A and not even taking up that much time per week. Excellent overall.

How he graded on the final convinces me that he wants us to fail. For reference, I would have had a 6.5% higher grade in the class if he had not purposefully screwed up my final. He wants to grade harshly. Many were unhappy about their final. He also would not respond to emails. Please don't take his class.

I mean all in all I don't think I could've had a better English Comp professor than Crosby himself. I highly recommend taking him as he's such a nice individual and is great at communicating what he expects from the class. The readings in class were eye opening and thought provoking. I very much enjoyed his class.

Crosby is a G. My friend took another ENGCOMP 3 prof and got destroyed. Take it with Crosby, do the readings, and enjoy your grade.

Professor Crosby's class was very enjoyable. He created a friendly and intimate environment among the classmates. There were about 20 people in the class, and most of us walked away having made relationships with at least one other classmate, which I admire Crosby for doing because we were all freshmen.

As for the class, he assigned about two readings each week that we had to read, annotate, and answer about 6 questions on. All of the assigned readings were provided (in the form of links or PDFs) and were very interesting. Not a single reading from this class was boring or too difficult to understand. The questions were very simple as well and remained relatively the same for each reading throughout the quarter.

There was no final exam, and the whole quarter is devoted to writing one main essay. He requires multiple submissions of drafts leading up to the final essay. He provides a substantial amount of time for this essay and offers many opportunities to help one-on-one improve the drafts. There were about two or three weeks that we did not meet as a class. During those weeks, the students who wanted help with their essays were able to make appointments with Crosby for a workshop.

Overall, this class was easy but I also learned much from it. If you're looking for an EngComp3 lecture, try to get Crosby if you can.