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As the only course at Harvard that every first-year student must take, Expository Writing (universally known as Expos) has a far-reaching impact on undergraduate education.
However, in addition to ensuring that all first-year students have comparable instruction in writing, Expos provides a model for the small course with individualized instruction to which Faculty and students alike frequently point in debates over course size.
Buell's amendment to the Core reform legislation invites an examination of Expos, which already embodies most of the points in Buell's plan.
Expos clearly has one objective: to teach students to write well. But preceptors and administrators differ on the program's other goals.
...writing, in most classes the only person reading the product is an overworked teaching fellow (TF) with 30 other papers to get through. Indeed, of my 16 classes thus far (the vast majority of which have been in the social sciences) only once--in Expos--have I been exposed to what my fellow students were writing and vice versa...