Excellent teacher, very helpfull, professional and friendly

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Very nice, funny, helpful, clear, an overall good class

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Arrogant, but intelligent. Understands her stuff....let me do a lot of rewrites

sonbby at times, but very friendly and helpful

She is very nice, funny, understanding and thorough. She knows her stuff and is not the least bit intimidating. She loves what she does and it makes it even better for her students

Let me rewrite a paper 4 times until I got an A. Weird stories, though.

Entertaining but snobbish. Likes Cs.

Ress is one of the best professors I've had at BU. She is the funniest, craziest little lady. She has insane stories and is really intelligent. Lets you rewrite every paper for a better grade. If you do the work you can expect a decent grade.

Lots of fun to be in her class, learn alot, but she tears you apart (though never out loud, only on paper). She's a tough professor to please, but my writing totally improved as a result. She's super funny, nice, and helpful.

Very nice, funny, and intelligent lady. Lets you rewrite each assignment once. Highly recommend!

I thought she was wicked cool. haha I enjoyed the class! It was very interesting!

very very hard grader... but she lets you rewrite your paper. then again that increases your workload. she is a fun teacher. but plesae stop grading so hard!

She's entertaining. A tough grader, but if you change your writing and discover what things she likes, you can get good grades. Very caring and personable.

I honestly find going to class each day a waste of my time. She basically reads the novellas to you! She's a tough grader, but she does let you re-write every paper and the higher grade prevails. Very funny lady.

She is one of my favorite teachers. She is very helpful and I don't mind going to the class. I love how she lets us rewrite papers to up our grades, it really helps!

Dr. Ress is a very nice woman who always tells interesting stories. Don't expect to do any grammar, the lectures are mostly her reading excerpts from the works and telling the story of the rest. She makes it very easy to not read the books.

I love Dr. Ress! This is my 2nd class with her. She is funny and makes class very interesting and certainly worth going to. Excellent professor.

entertaining woman, but she loves to hear herself talk. classtime is easy but annoying,tough paper-grader, she's the type who grades well if you write HER ideas and opinions about the books. allows rewrites. didn't feel i improved my writing.

She's a great teacher, who is funny and makes English interesting

She also teaches at Yale and her grading certainly reflects that. Don't take this class if your GPA needs a boost. That said, her class was my lowest grade and still my favorite by far. Other than grading, I can't say enough good things about her or recommend her enough. Awesome!

I hated writing and everything to do with writing before taking this class. She is witty and intelligent and she really does a good job at helping you if you need it. I recommend her class

Dr. Ress is an interesting and animated professor. Though she's a tough grader, and it takes forever to get revisions back, overall I think I benefited from her class.

one of the best professors i have ever had, not that hard of a grader, very witty, funny, and interesting. Really appreciates hard work and gives you freedom in her assignments. I absolutely recommend ant class with her.

She was a great teacher! She's funny, witty, and so cute--only around 4'11. Anyway, she's very intresting, but she is a difficult grader. She really makes you write your best, and if you don't, well, she gives you what you deserve. Also, there's always revision. I learned how to write well.

Very knowledgable and explains the text very thoroughly so she makes it easy not to do the reading. TOUGH grader and basically tells you exactly what to write. if you like to express your own opinions in your papers, this class is not for you. as a person, very approachable and funny, makes going to class enjoyable.

I love Dr. Ress! She's very nice, and very helpful if you just ask. Material was sometimes tedious, but relevant and interesting. Your writing will improve if you take her class. A wonderful, intelligent lady!

Dr. Ress is awesome! Despite what other people here have said, I think Ress is a fair grader, fun teacher and very interesting. She admits that the class is rigid and based on BU requirments. She has a great sense of humor and likes getting to know her students. She's easily approachable and very understanding.

Dr. Ress's class is the best writing class in BU! Do whatever it takes but get into this class for WR 150, Dr. Ress explains concepts clearly, a little hard on grading but her class is so much fun. Hilarious

I really enjoyed Dr. Ress' WR 100 class. Don't listen to what anybody says--she's not pretentious, that's her real accent. She is incredibly funny, and I look forward to every class with her. She's also very helpful when it comes to papers and grammatical questions. Basically, she's awesome.

I LOVE HER... She is sooo awesome and she lets you re-do essays to get a better grade. She is funny and entertaining and really knows her stuff.

Dr. Ress is awesome. Take her class. Seriously. Those who think she's an unfair grader probably ignore her comments. If you heed her notes in the margins of your papers, you'll get an A or an A-. Plus, she's hilarious and a great dresser. Don't pass her class up.

interesting person but a terrible grader. she definitely has favorites who will get high grades, & the majority will get Cs no matter what. shes hilarious & makes the class fun but avoid this class if u care for ur gpa. her grading policies will make u commit suicide. also makes u pay $10 for photocopies when she couldve posted them online instead

I am really mixed about this class. I am a good writer, and have an A in macroeconomics, math 120, and SM 121, yet a C+ in this class. Something is wrong here. I went to the writing center with every essay and revision, but always ended up with C's. It is really a shame, because she's a very intelligent lady but she rapes GPA's.

I love her. She's sweet, funny, and from very near my hometown. She's a tough grader but she lets you rewrite papers. She has high expectations of everyone. She goes through most of the reading in class to make sure you understand and it makes picking out paper topics easy. She's funny and keeps a class I formerly hated very interesting.

I LOVE HER I LOVE HER I LOVE HER! Her comedy class is possibly the class I look forward to the most each week. She's not an overly easy grader, but it's managible. Expect somewhere around an A-.

The class itself is amazing-I could sit there for 3 hours instead of 1.5-but her grading will destroy your GPA. I had an A in WR100, but I'm struggling to hold a B+ here. You don't have much choice for essays, except for topics already discussed in class. Do NOT take this class if you have to keep a specific GPA; it will stress you out too much.

She is an incredibly nice teacher and extremely entertaining. However, she never stops correcting a paper and an A is hard to find.

While i think Dr. Ress is a very interesting, cultured, and funny lady, she is quite a hard grader. In her defense, however, she lets you revise every paper for a better grade and goes over the reading with you literally page by page. She writes lots of comments, which shows that she actually READS the papers (unlike other professors). Cute lady.

Great teacher.Criticism on essays is a little overwhelming, but constructive. Very hard grader. She's smart, she knows it, and she wants you to know it.

I took this class last year, and I find that I reference something I learned with Dr. Ress at least once a week. She may be a difficult grader, but the class itself is great. Prepare to learn a lot of interesting things about comedy! You'll sound a lot smarter in the rest of your classes and your writing will get drastically better!

The class is very difficult but the topics she covered are interesting. For some unknown reason we didn't start reading the plays till halfway through the semester and had to rush to get through everything. If she likes you, guaranteed A. She also tends to short people.

extremely tough grader, But she actually cares about her students. If you want an A you probably wont get it, but if you want to be a better writer definitely take her. She wrote me an amazing recommendation even though I only got a B in her class.

She's a great person and extremely helpful. I just wasn't interested in the readings and found the class to be boring at most times. She grade's pretty harshly but gives constrictive crticism.

If you are in college to learn how to think deeply, to write clearly, and to express yourself powerfully, then sign up for Professor Ress' class. I have not known a professor that gave more thorough feedback to her students. Expect a challenge, but Professor Ress is fair and the class is worth it. That's why I had her for two semesters!

Comedy and the Comic impulse. I didn't realize it was comedy in the old sense (plays that don't end gruesomely). If you are looking for an easy class, find another one. If you want to take an interesting class with a wonderful professor who cares about her students and improve exponentially as a writer, take this one. Tough love pretty much.

She is an excellent professor.

If you are interesting in existentialism, Modern Novella is the class for you. Read great novellas (Tolstoy, Camus, Joyce). Dr Ress does not hand out easy A's but if you work hard, you will improve as a writer and your grade will reflect that. Office hours are very helpful and you can tell she really cares about her students & gets to know them.

Comedy & the Comic Impulse was a very, very difficult class. She's a hard grader, but she's understanding and helpful. I met with her outside of class a few times, and I think that helped. My grades improved a little when I followed her corrections exactly. I got an A-, but I worked hard to get it.

This was a very fun and interesting class, but I had to work very hard for a measly B. With the exception of this class, I am normally an A/-A student. Be forewarned that prompts are convoluted, and that endless rewrites may improve your writing, but not your grade. As long as you're savvy to this, take it for what it's worth.

She is a very good teacher and I enjoyed taking the class. I learned a lot from her. She is super nice and definitely knows what she is talking about.However, she is a very tough grader and it is nearly impossible to get an A. Definitely not an easy class overall.

Dr. Ress is super nice and truly wants students to improve their writing skills. She is a tough grader, so if you want an easy A then this isn't the class for you.If you put effort into the revisions then you will earn the good grades you deserve.

Incredibly hard. First time I've ever gotten a C, I wouldn't recommend for WR 150. She's funny and energetic though.

Don't take this class if you are not an English major. Though Ress is a nice person and will help you out when you need it, you need to give her exactly what she wants to get a remotely decent grade (if you can figure out what it is - she's unusually ambiguous). If she likes you your grade will reflect that. She is very picky so watch out. If you don't give 100% to this class she will make you suffer for it (sometimes even if you do).

Laura Ress is a great professor. Class was fun to go to and lectures were funny and interesting. HOWEVER, this class is extremely hard. I got a B and probably spent 100 hours working on papers. She gives horrible grades, so unless you're an english major, do not take this class.

Professor Ress made lectures fun and interesting. She's got a sense of humor, but you laugh at her as much as with her (which she loves). She's a little bit of a tough grader, but if you visit her before turning in a paper, she'll give good feedback on how to improve.

Be careful when you take her. Ress does a good job explaining things but can be quite stubborn when grading. For example, if she brings up some point she picked up on the book, she'd want you to incorporate it some how if your essay was based on said book. Very nit-picky. Also, the prompts on her essays can be confusing.

Dr. Ress is passionate about what she does. People find her overbearing, but in reality she just cares for her students. It is true that the essay topics are quite vague and require extra effort to carry out. While the work is challenging, if you give her a chance she can really be inspirational and teach you a lot about life. Tells fun stories too

You have to work A LOT. But if you like to learn, she's inspirational. If you want an easy A, not for you. She's a tough grader but gives the opportunity of resubmitting essays. But I'd rather get a B+ and be amazed by her.

You will have to work, and she is a tough grader. However, if you pay attention in class you can really learn a lot. She has a lot of valuable insight.