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...think Mr. Marius's criticism of the expository skills of fiction students can be dealt with through the current method of screening applicants to fiction Expos for evidence of previously established competence in these skills. I would willingly concede that reading short stories on the side also helped me a great deal, but Mrs. Thomson actively encouraged this anyway. I believe critical essays on these other works as would be required by Expos 18 are unnecessary and cannot but detract from the student's opportunity to develop his or her own writing style...
...fine ability as a concerned teacher for successfully pushing me towards my limits as a writer. The present situation dismays me and I fear comes down to a clash of personalities rather than a solution to legitimate deficiencies in Expos. I hope possibility remains for a reversal of Mr. Marius's decision to cancel Expository writing 13 and lose as fine a teacher as Mrs. Thomson. Michael T. Cohen...
...Richard Marius, director of Expository Writing, said he abolished fiction Expos because he believes many freshmen who take it do not learn how to write an expository essay. Marius's educational objection is understandable in a University that emphasizes expository essay skills, but his actions evidently stemmed from additional, less justifiable reasons. Marius said he would compromise and run the program personally for one more year until one of the fiction teachers protested his decision, reasoning that Marius would have enough power over the program in his position as Expos director. Marius's abrupt action in cancelling the program when...
...Marius said he abolished the fiction option because he concluded that he and two of his fiction teachers could not agree on how to run the program. But whatever personality conflicts have emerged within the fiction staff, it is the freshmen who will suffer, and is Marius's responsibility to resolve such conflicts...
...replace fiction Expos, Marius has proposed a new experimental course, Expository Writing 18, which would require both critical essays about fiction and short fictional vignettes. But Marius's attempted compromise will not work, because it cannot accomodate the desires of many freshmen to write longer, more developed fiction under careful guidance. Marius's action removes half of the available number of fiction courses at the University, and will increase the pressure on the already over-subscribed advanced fiction courses...