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According to The Crimson’s 1985 coverage of this expos class—then called Expos 5 but now known to students as Expos 10—writing program officials intended it to give some students for whom English is a second language, as well as students with significantly weaker writing backgrounds additional instruction to prepare them for college-level writing...
...basic philosophy of the Expository Writing Program has remained the same over the years regardless of the type of expos class being offered...
According to current Assistant Director of the Harvard Writing Project James P. Herron, today’s program does well “to assure that all Harvard students get a solid grounding in the common elements of argumentative writing...
...whole] program was very embryonic though,” said English Professor Lawrence Buell, who served as Dean of Undergraduate Education from 1992 to 1996 and helped manage the Expos operation as the program’s titular head. “Your Expos 20 was one of the [courses] offered with some regularity, I believe, and even Expos 20 was still very much topical...
According to a Crimson interview with the late former Director of Expository Writing Richard C. Marius, 1985’s Expos 5 was an overhaul of the previous one-on-one tutorial program available for students who performed poorly in their regular fall Expos courses, a system that proved inefficient because “it was backward...to [give students] special work after they’ve gone through regular expos...