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She is making small but meaningful changes to the Expos schedule in order to give first-years a better opportunity to do that.
Before this year, Expos required four 8-10 page papers, and both teachers and students complained that was too much work for a short Harvard semester. For the Class of 1998, the first paper will be 3-5 pages, the second and third 5-7, and only the fourth 8...
"One of the analyses we did of Harvard assignments showed that a lot of times students were only asked to write three to five page papers," Sommers says. "So we wanted to give them that experience in Expos."
One thing about the program will never change, Sommers says: its emphasis on revisions. She says students must learn to rewrite their own work. So Sommers is asking Expos teachers to spend more time in individual conferences with students in order to work out the kinks in different drafts.
The new Expos director also has a number of long-term projects at various stages of development.