I like how she set up one-on-one meetings and she's clear, but this class is not useful and i didn't learn anything new. Her feedback is contradicting and she is pretentious and disrespectful. she has made multiple comments about disease in Africa that as a professor in the health professions should not be making.

Professor Mizrahi has been my favorite professor throughout my experience at UCSB. She assigned homework that actually helped improve our writing skills and during lectures she gave us real-world advice that has been super invaluable. This is her last quarter teaching at UCSB and I'm so glad I got to be in her class.

Although she's a knowledgeable, experienced writer and a straightforward, articulate speaker, she's pretentious and makes you feel inadequate when you ask for help. She says she's there for her students, but when asking for her opinion, will leave you on your own and not help you at all. Main assignments were personal statement and medical report.

Didn't give 1 star was because she actually is a good writer. HOWEVER, she is SO inaccessible outside class. I could not schedule ANY outside appointments with her and she overlaps scheduled appointments with my class's OH, so I can't even meet her then! Lastly, she is quite pretentious about her grading policy and I can't wait for this to be over.

I love Prof. Mizrahi. Extremely intelligent lady who gives great feedback on your assignments. She really pushes you and helps you become the best writer you can be. That being said, her personality isn't for everyone because she is a little sassy. But I absolutely love her and have taken her twice already. 10/10 would recommend!

Took her for journalism and web content writing. Really knows her stuff about the professional writing field and has years of experience. A lot of writing but it's not overly hard, and she'll give you really useful direction if you ask her. Office hours are a huge help but she's very helpful in class too. Hands down one of my favorite professors.

Janet Mizrahi is convinced that she is the a god-send to journalism. She has a very large ego despite not knowing much. She genuinely appears to enjoy criticizing students. Her feedback is not helpful. She commonly contradicts herself. (She will critique the exact changes she asked you to make). Beside all this her class is laughably easy.

I really enjoyed Prof. Mizrahi. She really knows her stuff about all different types of journalism, down to all the small details. She is a tough grader and makes you work hard, but it's so worth it. She's super helpful with editing and gives tons of feedback to help you improve. No tests, just writing assignments. Taking her again next quarter!

Great class to learn about professional ways of communicating- professional emails, cover letters, resumes, etc. You should definitely take this class if you plan to work in a professional environment. Group project is pretty time consuming but not too hard.

If you're interested in journalism at all this is a really great class. You learn about so many different areas of journalism and mizrahi truly knows the business. She is a tough grader however and will tell you to rewrite a whole paper if she thinks its not good. Be prepared to work hard, but she's honestly a great person!

Had some major frustrations with this professor contradicting herself. There were two instances when I presented her with essentially the same essay (once during optional office hours and another time during a mandatory meeting), and had drastically different responses. Furthermore, she criticized amendments she had made in my papers :

Class will prepare you for communicating effectively and professionally in the business world. Take it during your last semester you make a cover letter and resume in class which you can use to apply to actual jobs. She is a tough grader make sure to read the rubrics if you want A''s on your assignments. I only bought the 5 reader and got an A-