This was my favorite class I took this semester. devin is an amazing professor and the environment he created in the class was amazing. Through in-class discussion, I made friends I'll treasure for the rest of my time at UVA. The readings and writing prompts were excellent and taught me a lot about writing and myself. I recommend this class to all first years. #tCFF23

Professor Donovan teaches this course with the topic of Mindfulness in Writing - he knows that most students come in not knowing about the topic, and a lot of the readings given are introductory materials into the world of mindfulness. He's a really fun professor and extremely smart. There are three writing projects, and the third one is a group project where you just need to write an individual reflection. The class, albeit boring at times, is pretty easy if you put thought into writing, and he revises your grade based off the revised projects in your portfolio at the end of the semester. Revising is really easy because he takes the time to write a whole page of comments for each project, and you get to present one of your projects to the class for a Writing Workshop (super helpful). There's a lot of discussion based off the readings, so do those!!