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> the students meet in the lecture format for two hours per > week (one by me, and one by a guest lecturer talking about some aspect > of engineering) and they also meet in tutorials for two hours per week > where they practice writing with assignments moving through the > rhetorical patterns and certain forms like memos, letters, proposal. Or > they did, the English department in its wisdom has cut back to one hour > per week of tutorial and has eliminated the guest lecture component, > meaning that the poor blighter who is succeeding me has to lecture 2 > hours and the poor students only get 1 hour per week of anything useful. > P.S. I'm still keen for more responses to the question "Why not > lecture?" Am glad because I want to ask about the tutorial component. How is it organized? How large are the groups? Who are the tutors? Am asking because the tutorial component of the course I teach is threatened due to budget cuts. Thanks, Mieke Mieke Koppen Tucker Bishop's University