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Such gains will probably be lost if the current proposal for reform is approved. On December 19, Gwynne B. Evans and Jean H. Slingerland, director and assistant director of Expository Writing, submitted a proposal to the Faculty Council to exempt over 500 students from the writing requirement, to eliminate the middle-group courses, and to standardize Expos 10 with one text, one exam, and one syllabus for the 1000 who score below 700 on the English Composition Achievement Test. The proposal has not yet been passed, because of considerable controversy between the teaching and the administrative staffs of the program...
...While Slingerland's proposal may not be as bad as its detractors believe, one thing it does reflect is that administrators and not educators control Expository Writing. The proposal's main objective is honorable enough: exempting one third of the freshman class from Expos would make more and smaller sections possible...
...Jean H. Slingerland, assistant director of Expository Writing, said last week that some teachers were "shocked" by the new program. "Others share with me my sense that this is very much what students want these days," she added...
...Slingerland said she regards the program as the most important course in the University, since it teaches skills that can determine the outcome of the next three years...
...Expos can possibly be the most traumatic course in the University and the hardest to teach," Slingerland said...