Word: exposers
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Such gains will probably be lost if the current proposal for reform is approved. On December 19, Gwynne B. Evans and Jean H. Slingerland, director and assistant director of Expository Writing, submitted a proposal to the Faculty Council to exempt over 500 students from the writing requirement, to eliminate the...
While Slingerland's proposal may not be as bad as its detractors believe, one thing it does reflect is that administrators and not educators control Expository Writing. The proposal's main objective is honorable enough: exempting one third of the freshman class from Expos would make more and smaller sections...
The idea of standardizing a writing course is a silly one. In the past, Expos, particularly at the 100 level, has sometimes meant an occasional moment of sanity in the confusion of freshman year. Because many freshmen do not get into freshman seminars and because Harvard's advising system is...
AS FOR THE proposed exemptions from the writing requirement, a high score on the SAT or English College boards by no means insures good writing ability. Good reading is not synonymous with good writing. The elimination of the 100 requirement, except possibly for six or seven courses, will only make...
Rather than standardize the program at its lowest and least imaginative level, why not diversify the whole requirement at the 100 group level? Individualized courses tailored to particular interests and tastes would be more engaging for students and teachers alike. As there is an imminent shortage of graduate students, and...