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...When Weinstein meets with students he occasionally tapes the conversation with their permission so that later he can make sure that he understood clearly what the student needed and that he had responded to those needs. The advisors at the Writing Center are careful to work from the student's perspective...
...with some company," had been circulating among the Expository Writing faculty for years. It had long recognized the inadequacy of a single term of Expos to serve a student's writing needs. Finally, last spring, Donald Byker, asstant director of Expository Writing, decided something should be done and asked Weinstein and Joan Bolker, each of whom bears the elegant title of Preceptor in Expository Writing, to organize the center. Assistant Director of Expository Writing Byker agreed to provide money for three part-time employees; the University found space for the center in Room 309 of Hilles Library; and the Writing...
...Larry Weinstein is very tactful. In his earnest but soft spoken manner, he explained that the Writing Center does not pretend that there is only one way to write. The staff only tries to suggest new approaches that might enable the student to express himself more easily...
...organizers did not have great expectations about students' response to the idea. "I thought I'd spend weeks alone in the room waiting for someone to come," said Weinstein. Actually, this week, like most other weeks since the opening of the center, he's booked solid. Open three days a week to undergraduate, graduate and extension students, the center is flooded with requests from students with a wide variety of problems. Weinstein said the problems ran from "those of the undergraduate from Japan who is uncertain where to insert the definite article, to those of the senior who wants...
...Although Weinstein himself has written a play and some poetry as well as essays, most of his advising centers on the problems undergraduates have writing non-fiction. The students who come for help fall into two categories: those who are worried about what Weinstein calls "full and true expression" and those who just want to get better grades. Weinstein admits that he has an easier time with the former. As for the latter, he said, "I don't refuse to talk, but I let the student know there are higher ideals...