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This problem has, we were glad to learn last week, attracted the attention of Richard Marius, the director of the expository writing program. Expressing concern that graders often ignore, students' poor writing and do little to develop writing skills. Marius announced his plans to recommend that all section leaders in Core courses with paper assignments be required to undergo a graining program in criticizing written work. His proposal will come this summer, in a report on the expository writing program to Henry Rosovsky, dean of Faculty, he said...
...encouraging that Marius shares our conviction that poor writing is a surefire sign of poor thinking, and that in few non science courses the actual subject matter is more important than the ability to write about it clearly. And we fear a great many section leaders do not operate under this assumption, we have seen too many papers come back with only cursory comments about the paper's content alone...
Taught by Expository Writing program director Richard Marius and preceptor Jonathan Aaron Expos 2-which Marry says will probably be dubbed "Intermediate Rhetoric"-will require its 40 students to submit a page of writing a day for 12 weeks. Uhhuh-that's 60-plus pages of writing during the term...
...that's not all Expos 2 enrollee-upperclassmen whom Marius says he will select at random from applicants-will be expected to attend weekly hour-long solo conferences with Marius or Aaron in addition to regular lectures. "It will be an enormous amount of work for every one concerned," Marius notes...
...says Marius "from the pressure we've had on us" in the past from students eager for more Expos," I expect we'll have more than 40 applicants," I really expect a big demand for it," he adds...