My whole class had a lot of writing assignments, and this class actually had fewer than the others. In English. Lit, there was a journal assignment due each week and a weekly online forum we had to post. In Introduction to Poetry and Poetics, there was a weekly writing prompt due before Friday at midnight. There were also many written assignments in class that needed to be added to a final portfolio. I taught a real writing class, Genre Writing, where all anyone did was write projects. I will say that academic writing allowed for more revisions, which is something I wish other courses would do. In all these classes, I think only Brit. Lit had the same rigorous voting expectations. However, the main difference was that we could not revise an essay once it was submitted and graded. I think this makes the rating system a little more difficult. There was only one chance to get an “A” on an assignment, whereas in Academic Writing we get three. Also, some of the topics we had to write about in English. It would have been a little more difficult because it wasn't as simple as the criticism of the article says