ENGR M495I
Teaching Preparation Seminar: Writing for Engineers
Also listed as ENGCOMP M495I: the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.
Grades
Pass/no pass only, so there is no average to report.
Graded P/NP: 29 records over 4 terms.
In the A range
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no letter grades in the record to count
D, F or W
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no letter grades in the record to count
Taken pass/no pass
51%
97% of those passed
The registrar's own records: Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- P 28 of 58
- NP 1 of 58
- S 28 of 58
- I 1 of 58
Counts are out of 58 recorded outcomes. These are non-letter grades and do not have a GPA.
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FALLOWS, RANDALL JONATHAN reviews ↗ | P/NP | 7 P/NP | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| MCIVER, MIA LOUISE GROVES reviews ↗ | P/NP | 9 P/NP | 1 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| RUBINSON, GREGORY J reviews ↗ | P/NP | 13 P/NP | 2 | - | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
In Springs
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Springs.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
(Same as English Composition M495I.) Seminar, two and one half hours; outside study, nine and one half hours. Limited to graduate students. Required of all teaching assistants for Engineering writing courses not exempt by appropriate departmental or program training. Training and mentoring, with focus on composition pedagogy, assessment of student writing, guidance of revision process, and specialized writing problems that may occur in engineering writing contexts. Practical concerns of preparing students to write course assignments, marking and grading essays, and conducting peer reviews and conferences. S/U grading.
Sections in Spring 2026
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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