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Gordon C. Harvey, a preceptor who served as Acting Director of Expos while director Nancy Sommers was on leave this year, says Expos is designed to teach students how to write a college-level essay, complete with instruction in "the process of planning, drafting and revising that one needs to...
But Harvey cautions that Expos does not cure all writing problems.
Administrators tend to agree with Harvey's formulation of the goals of Expos.
"The mission of Expos is what it has always been at Harvard," says L. Fred Jewett '57, who served as Dean of the College until 1995. "It really is an attempt to ensure and to develop students' ability to express themselves in written form."
Dean of FAS Jeremy R. Knowles says the main goal of Expos is to emphasize the primacy of writing.