ENGCOMP 3E
English Composition, Rhetoric, and Language For Engineers
Grades
3.73
Average grade awarded in ENGCOMP 3E. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
80%
of the 194 letter grades
D, F or W
0.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 194 grades over 5 terms, 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, and term averages across those 5 terms ran 3.69 to 3.79.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 10 · 5.2%
- A 98 · 50.5%
- A- 47 · 24.2%
- B+ 26 · 13.4%
- B 7 · 3.6%
- B- 1 · 0.5%
- C+ 2 · 1.0%
- C 1 · 0.5%
- C- 1 · 0.5%
- F 1 · 0.5%
Percentages are of the 194 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
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 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SUSSMAN, DANIEL BENJAMIN reviews ↗ | 3.80 | 3.81 | 131 | 5 | 85% | very light | not teaching it |
| WATSON, DANA CAIRNS reviews ↗ | 3.61 | 3.57 | 63 | 3 | 68% | heavy | 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.
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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.
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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before ENGCOMP 3E. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ENGCOMP 3E in Spring 2027 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for ENGCOMP 2 and ENGCOMP 2I, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Springs
Has not run in Spring in the 4 Springs dibs holds records for, back to Fall 2021. That is 4 years of grade records rather than the course catalog, so it says what has happened and not what the department will do next.
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
Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement or course 2 or 2I (C or better). Not open for credit to students with credit for course 3, 3D, 3DS, or 3SL. Rhetorical techniques and skillful expository writing. Analysis of varieties of academic prose, including technical writing, and integration of multimodal elements. Minimum of 20 pages of revised text. Completion of course with grade of C or better satisfies Writing I requirement. Letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2027
From the people who took it
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