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The 58 year-old Georgi, a bearded, august professor, might seem like an unlikely feminist. But if anyone has the heft to make change, he does. The physicist learned his scientific ABCs at the College from Nobel Prize-winner Julian Schwinger, won renown in the lab, and eventually assumed the...
“I would love to hear what she’s learned that I’m not aware of,” said Matory, who added that he welcomes other motions even when they differ from his own.
The Feb. 17 public meeting of the Curricular Review’s Committee to Review Expository Writing (Expos) provided compelling arguments for the maintenance and improvement of the Expository Writing program at Harvard. One issue that arose at the discussion, however, was the disparate responses from freshmen and seniors about...
At the beginning of their sophomore year, however, students find themselves in concentrations that often inundate them with esoteric and confusing writing standards that are supposedly unique to that field. One English concentrator even reported at the Curricular Review meeting that he was told in some concentration courses that in...
Admittedly, different academic fields have unique technical aspects of their writing. Writing about history poses certain challenges, such as interpreting historical documents, that do not come up in scientific writing, where results should objectively speak for themselves. Such difficulties must be addressed in writing instruction that continues throughout one?...