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The petition also outlines measures which organizers believe will make the thesis grading process fairer.
The petition urges the English department to implement specific guidelines for thesis-graders, incorporate student input in the grading process and "insure that a student's reader has sufficient familiarity with the theoretical and critical approaches employed by that student."
Petition organizers said they do not expect the department to implement their suggestions about the general exam or thesis grading immediately.
"Every hour I spend teaching sections, grading papers, meeting with students, is an hour that I don't spend working on my dissertation," he added.
Students sometimes complain that visiting professors raise their grading standards when teaching at Harvard, an outgrowth of the common perception that Harvard students are fundamentally more intellectual than students at other schools.