Word: marius
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pass/fail courses are an idea whose time has come and gone." Richard C. Marius, director of expository writing, told the assembled professors...
...Marius and other Faculty members argued that students are less committed to courser they take pass fail, and learn less in them...
Students enrolled in Expos II credit the individual instruction given by tutors as the most beneficial difference between the new offering and its freshman year forebear, and Expository Writing Director Richard C. Marius agrees. "Writing is an intimate act," he explained...
...combat the decline in quality of long assignments completed in all-night writing sessions, and case tension between students and section leaders often associated with Expos I. Marius and Aaron designed the requirements for Expos II to stress simplicity and consistent assignments. Students must complete a daily, one-page writing sample and meet with their personal tutors at at least one, hour-long conference each week. A weekly lecture focusing on one aspect of prose style is also required...
...hope the Faculty will keep searching for imaginative ways to reform the section leader system as Marius has done. We have three to offer: set a low limit to the number of students a teaching assistant can be responsible for in a term, coupled with the necessary salary adjustments so that a t.a. does not lose money in the process; make it easier to switch sections in mid-term; and improve the mechanism for evaluating section leaders at the end of a term, in order to help departments, address specific shortcomings in individual...