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...students and instructor of an advanced course in painting are exhibiting a sculpture in the lobby of the Carpenter Center, which they say portrays the "act of dreaming...
...prose when they treat writing as a monologue. In functional writing, they are taught to view it as a dialogue with readers. Says Van Nostrand: "It is easier to organize your information for someone else than for yourself." In a typical course, 15 to 30 students meet with an instructor twice a week for 90-minute sessions. The core of the program is a 331-page workbook outlining a series of laborious drills that break the writing process into simple steps...
...will be worked into the paragraph? Only after dutifully outlining the requirements can the student begin to write. When he is finished, he must analyze the paragraph and explain -again on paper-whether his "organizing idea" survived the actual writing process. Finally, he reviews the whole exercise with the instructor, who may order him to do it all over-remembering, of course, the Van Nostrand dictum that a student must write as if he had "a contract with the reader...
...close supervision, which gives the course the feeling of a private tutorial. Yet the method also has its critics. A common complaint, voiced by another Wheaton student, is that the repetitive drilling can be "a terrific bore and is not exactly creative." Admits Katherine Feeney, a Van Nostrand instructor at Brown: "Sometimes the students feel that it's all too structured." But, she adds, "there aren't many who don't feel amazed by how much they've learned...
...proposal that would require all University departments to have faculty of the rank of instructor or above teach 70 per cent of the students in department tutorials received a first hearing from the Faculty Council in its meeting yesterday, and the Council will continue to consider the proposal in upcoming meetings, a Council member said yesterday...