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Richard C. Marius said his concerns that grading methods at Harvard often ignore students' poor writing, and that graders do little to develop writing skills, prompted him to begin a report on the Expos program to Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, which he will complete this summer.
Wallace T. MacCaffrey, chairman of the History Department, said a workshop conducted by Marius for History tutors last September had been "helpful and illuminating" in demonstrating constructive techniques for grading students work.
Expos teacher Lawrence A. Weinstein has held several similar workshops for interested section leaders this year, emphasizing grading techniques that do not "demoralize" students.
STEPHEN SCHLESINGER honed the skills that-produced Bitter Fruit teaching expository writing to Harvard freshmen. A Law School student at the time. Schlesinger was a third--generation Harvard instructor: his father, Kennedy biographer Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. taught history in the yard, as did his grandfather. Arthur Sr. Anuncle, John K...
The Michelinan committee last year made recommendations on first-year programs, but its major suggestion--to institute pass-fail grading for the first semester was voted down by the faculty Harvard's law school retains a reputation for resistance to large scale change.