instructors that edit your work and courses without grades- yup, that’s UofT for ya!

I’m not the best at writing essays and I figure taking one of those writing courses would really help me out in the future. I’m thinking about taking INI103H1 Writing Essays (formerly INI200Y1). Is that course any good? Or
will my marks just suffer? I have to keep up a 3.5 GPA so will this course work to level my GPA or will it just lower it tremendously? Also, is there a lot of work involved?

I?ll start with a little tune (put your hands together everyone!):

Don’t know much about history/ Don’t know much biology/ Don’t know much about science book/ Don’t know much about the INI200Y course (currently INI103H, INI104H) someone took

But I do know that I love ASSU/ And I know that if you check it out too/ What a wonderful world this would be…

So if you didn?t enjoy that, ?and if you?re still concerned about your writing, but super concerned about maintaining your 3.5 average (freak!), you have more than one option in your sack, buster (wouldn?t it be funny if that were actually your name?):?

First of all, if you?re worried about writing essays, the best available resource the university has to offer is the writing centre. Every college has one, and you can go there with a preliminary draft of your paper (it?s one visit per assignment or something like that), and those super-able and usually ultra-friendly professionals will tear it apart in a swift 50 minute session, while giving you important pointers and correcting any syntactic errors you may have. This is an awesome tool, which may be more efficient than taking a general writing course.?

However, if you want to take that INI writing course (which I?m sure is great), and are afraid of tainting your spotless record, you can now take that course, or any course for that matter (up to 1 FCE for your undergrad degree) as a Credit/No-Credit course. This means you can take a course and not receive a grade for it, and thus not affect your GPA. For the full deal, go to page 494 of the calendar, or here.

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