Word: harvey
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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 go through to write good essays...
...Harvey cautions that Expos does not cure all writing problems...
...Obviously our mission isn't to teach students everything they'll ever need to know about writing," Harvey says. "That, since writing is really just a particularly careful form of thinking, is the mission of all four years of undergraduate education, or maybe the mission of a whole life...
Administrators tend to agree with Harvey's formulation of the goals of Expos...
...Harvey says the program tries to maintain a balance between control and freedom for preceptors, monitoring teachers to make sure all students receive as similar an Expos experience as possible...