Word: essay
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Gordon C. Harvey, a preceptor who served as Acting Director of Expos while director Nancy Sommers was on leave this year, says Expos is designed to teach students how to write a college-level essay, complete with instruction in "the process of planning, drafting and revising that one needs to go through to write good essays...
...course in argument," says preceptor Anne Fernald, who teaches "The Essay and the Modern World" in Expos 20. "It introduces students to college-level analytic writing...
...mission that I interpreted was to provide me with writing skills that I could use and build on during my time here," says Lamelle D. Rawlins '99, the president of the Undergraduate Council, who took "The Essay" with preceptor Stephen Donatelli...
Harvey's guide also outlines universal course policies and practices, such as the common procedure of giving students artificially low grades on their first essay so that they will feel accomplished when they score higher toward the end of the course...
...Students will expect to have their improved writing reflected in a grade, so you should be tough on the first essay," the guide reads. "Don't be afraid to give C's and even D's. If you start giving all B's and A's, your grades will have nowhere to rise...