Dartmouth Students Learn from In-House Editors
The founder and financial backer of Dartmouth's unusual Departmental Editing Program announced this week that he will continue funding the program for another year.
The program provides students taking math, art history, and religion classes with the services of three in-house editors who work closely with students on developing their writing skills. Joseph Asch, a Hanover-area businessman who graduated from Dartmouth in 1979, designed and launched the DEP in 1997 after hearing complaints from professors about weak undergraduate writing skills. Faculty and students have praised the DEP for its department-centered services, which they feel are superior to the more general writing support available through Dartmouth's Research, Writing, and Information Technology Center.
Asch, who has contributed $500,000 to the program since its inception, had planned to end the program at the close of the 2005-2006 academic year. He hopes that Dartmouth officials will see the value of the program and adopt it throughout the College.
A growing number of employers are citing poor writing and communication skills as one of their top complaints about new hires. We've written about this topic before, in "MBAs Can't Write, Employers Say."
Source: "Editing Program Extended for One Year," by Marina Agakapis - The Dartmouth, April 20, 2006
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The program provides students taking math, art history, and religion classes with the services of three in-house editors who work closely with students on developing their writing skills. Joseph Asch, a Hanover-area businessman who graduated from Dartmouth in 1979, designed and launched the DEP in 1997 after hearing complaints from professors about weak undergraduate writing skills. Faculty and students have praised the DEP for its department-centered services, which they feel are superior to the more general writing support available through Dartmouth's Research, Writing, and Information Technology Center.
Asch, who has contributed $500,000 to the program since its inception, had planned to end the program at the close of the 2005-2006 academic year. He hopes that Dartmouth officials will see the value of the program and adopt it throughout the College.
A growing number of employers are citing poor writing and communication skills as one of their top complaints about new hires. We've written about this topic before, in "MBAs Can't Write, Employers Say."
Source: "Editing Program Extended for One Year," by Marina Agakapis - The Dartmouth, April 20, 2006
Technorati tags: Dartmouth, Ivy League
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