Word: essays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exhorting us to actively pursue our writing during our undergraduate years. At Harvard, writing was to be more than a mere device of the humanities--it was its own discipline. It would be a skill ingrained in us through the Expository Writing Program, and honed through four years of essay compositions. Yet obtaining adequate writing instruction in the College turned out to be a challenge...
...science, the course focused on the exceptionally dry readings--the writing assignments seemed almost secondary. The several individual conferences I had with her over the semester came too late; instead of offering ideas for improvement on the assignment at hand, my instructor offered ideas on writing my next essay. In first-year Expos, writing was to remain a mystical "event," and not a thoughtful process...
...readings included a study of classical rhetoric as well as short non-fiction pieces highlighting specific writing techniques. Every Friday we would participate in a personal tutorial, either with Marius himself or one of his two assistants. We were encouraged to submit excerpts of the same essay in successive weeks to examine each step of the editing and revision process--that way, we could highlight and solve persistent problems...
...week after Faculty officials issued a 10-page essay meant to prompt discussion about the undergraduate concentrations, faculty members are only beginning to dig it out of the mail, mull it over and assign committees...
...receive from our parents comes in a package almost impossible to unwrap; often it seems wiser not to try. Inside are the various clues--most of them older than time--to who we are and how we behave." Any careful reader of Merrill's verse could have written an essay which included those lines; it seems a waste for Merrill to have written them himself. His stories about father, mother and cousins are useful for their raw data, which clear up obscure details in the poems; often, that's about...