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Richard C. Marius said his concerns that grading methods at Harvard often ignore students' poor writing, and that graders do little to develop writing skills, prompted him to begin a report on the Expos program to Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, which he will complete this summer...
...Fiction Expos publishes his first collection of short stories and they turn out to be offbeat, readable, even provocative. All those thesis statements adequately supported, specific active verbs and logical transitions produce a warming glow, a feeling that, after all, God or John Harvard or at least Richard Marius must be in his heaven...
...Richard Marius, whose Expository Writing program is not officially part of the Core but who is a member of the Core Standing Committee, says he hopes to focus the Core on the needs of individual students by more closely affiliating it with Expos. By encouraging students to submit papers they've written for Core courses to their Expos teachers, he believe students can get more individualized attention and "show students that the kinds of things we are trying to do will help them in the rest of the University." Some professors have been reluctant to permit dual submission because they...
Wilcox's report also included a statement from Richard C. Marius, director of Expository Writing, explaining why he considered it "administratively impossible" to establish a link between the Core and Expos programs...
...Core Curriculum suggested such a connection--which would have freshmen sign up for Expos sections corresponding to Core courses they are in. But for a number of reasons--a major one was that Core courses do not assign enough written work to make such a link feasible--Marius rejected the idea, and the standing committee informally decided to drop...