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Another Expos lecturer, Ed Miller, agreed with Birkerts, saying, "It's definitely one of the better posters I've read lately."
BECAUSE OF the courses I have taken, I have had graduate student section leaders that know how to teach good writing, filling in the gap left by Expos. That seems, though, a little late in the process.
Expos could be a great course, one of the best at Harvard. But it needs help. For one thing, there should be one uniform Expos course, with more emphasis on writing than on subject matter. Within this course, students could still retain flexibility in choosing paper topics, just as they...
Expos should also be more rigorous. Assignments should be shorter and more frequent, and more emphasis should be placed on editing. The only way to learn writing is to write, and the only way to believe that editing is worth the time is to see its effects.
Humility may be a virtue, and Expos is right in trying to rid students of their bad habits. But all too often, the whole writer is shattered instead.