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...paced more moderately, and was more targeted towards basic grammar and paragraph-building skills than the regular Expos course was,” Buell said. “Faculty accepted it as a transitional class for the less prepared students...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Expos Revised: Addressing Varied Writing Skill Levels | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...actually harm us in the process. Shopping period may once have been useful, it’s true—back in the days before syllabi could be posted online or that questioner could e-mail the professor instead. But today, much more information beyond a one-paragraph course description can and must be made available several months before a semester begins. We should take advantage of that—and abolish the shopping period that it has made obsolete...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: Close Up Shopping | 4/21/2010 | See Source »

...problem with that little paragraph is that I barely saw it during this past job/internship application cycle (and not because I was accepted to everything. We should all be so lucky). Chances are, if you were applying for jobs, you didn’t see it much either because many employers have adopted what can only be described as a silent treatment toward those less-than-worthy applicants. This means that applicants who are not passed to further rounds are never notified of their rejected status. This policy is unreasonable and disrespectful. Employers need to treat their applicants with...

Author: By Maya E. Shwayder | Title: The Silent Treatment | 4/9/2010 | See Source »

Echoing a grievance raised by many Harvard admits before her, Maouyo gently complained, “The first paragraph [of the admissions e-mail] failed to mention the word accepted. It said ‘we offer you a place in the Harvard Class of 2014.’ I reread it, like, five times...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Introducing the Class of 2014 | 4/2/2010 | See Source »

...that's pretty much it. The last paragraph of this generic article about a popular Internet video just summarizes what you already know and ends with a witty observation that makes me, the writer, seem hip. Maybe I'll point out that the movie would never win an Oscar for one simple reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Every Academy Award–Winning Movie Ever Made | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

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