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Why do so many student conferences with expository writing teachers end in confrontation--while conference with professors more often end with a meaningful exchanges of ideas? Why do alumni and students so often discuss Expos with mutual loathing?
The Expository Writing Department has no reason to be responsive to students' needs. Many students have no desire to learn the skills Expos tries to impart. All because Expos is forced upon us, not offered to us.
The mandatory nature of Expos also engenders a lack of accountability. Since the administrators of the expository writing program know they have the power to dictate their own guidelines, they have little incentive to create a flexible program that accommodates the needs of most students.
Richard does have his shortcomings, chief among them his utter inability to beat around the bush. If a teacher is doing a bad job, Richard will say so flat out and not skimp on the details. He'll do the same for transfer students who come from colleges where bad...
Sooner or later Expos teachers, as well as their students, have to leave Harvard. I moved from Expos to a dreadful writing job--one from which I finally escaped. Some of the people now griping will eventually find out how good a boss they have in Richard.