Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charge I resent is contained by implication in your phrase, "the 'What I Did This Summer' themes of English A." The implication amounts to saying that English A invites trivial papers on trivial subjects. This, of course, is directly contrary to the policy which I have done my utmost to urge both upon the instructing staff and, whenever I have had an opportunity, on students in the course. I am responsible for the slogan, "The unforgivable theme is the theme without a subject." It is perfectly true that we usually begin the year with one or more assignments asking...
...educational situation for teaching or learning the difficult business of educated writing, especially when it is fair to presume that those required to take a non-credit course would be the least competent students? Again, in what ways do the editors of the CRIMSON suppose that "a greatly expanded English C" would differ from the general aims and methods of English...
...belief in the principle of General Education is evidenced, I think, by the fact that during the last four or five years I have, with the collaboration of my staff, moved English A itself steadily in the direction of General Education. Particularly in the second half year, after trying in the first half year to lay down some fundamentals of composition, we have tried to teach writing in relation to the study of texts which we thought worth close discussion in the classroom. Theodore Morrison, Director of English...
...CRIMSON feels that a corrective non-credit half-course, as suggested by the new General Education plan, will be far more effective than the present catch-all English A, especially when accompanied with the proposed increased stress on writing in basic GE courses. The enlarged English C will give students a greater opportunity for creative writing, if they want this instruction in addition to the writing for specific purposes which the GE program will emphasize...
...English A Revised...