New courses in Writing and Humanistic Studies from MIT OpenCourseWare, provider of free and open MIT course materials. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies 2013-06-13T03:51:52+05:00 MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu en-US Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course is an introduction to the short story. Students will write stories and short descriptive sketches. Students will read great short stories and participate in class discussions of students' writing and the assigned stories in their historical and social contexts. http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=7aca97d8d30ebe347c37501a79a4f788 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-755-writing-and-reading-short-stories-spring-2012 Lewitt, Shariann 2013-01-23T09:57:23+05:00 21W.755 21W.757 en-US short story creative writing voice point of view character place plot pace conflict obstacle writer's block workshop incident description publishing revelation reader writer free writing rewrite MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Students work in small collaborative design teams to propose, build, and document a semester-long project focused on mobile applications for cell phones. Additional assignments include creating several small mobile applications such as context-aware mobile media capture and games. Students document their work through a series of written and oral proposals, progress reports, and final reports. This course covers the basics of J2ME and explores mobile imaging and media creation, GPS location, user-centered design, usability testing, and prototyping. Java experience is recommended. http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=568059d09c83473561395272fc044c15 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-789-communicating-with-mobile-technology-spring-2011 Barrett, Edward C. Bentley, Frank 2012-01-05T14:54:44+05:00 21W.789 en-US smartphone applications app building programming android iphone project management design mobile imaging media creation GBS location user design usability testing prototyping MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm In this era of globalization, many of us have multi- or bi-cultural, multilingual or bilingual backgrounds, and even if we don't have such a background, we need urgently to understand the experiences of people who do. You will very likely work outside the United States at some point in your future; you will almost certainly work with people who speak more than one language, whose ancestry or origins are in a country other than the U.S., who have crossed borders of nation, language, culture, class to amalgamate into the large and diverse culture that is America. In this class we will read the personal narratives of bilingual and bicultural writers, some of whom have struggled to assimilate, others of whom have celebrated their own contributions to a culture of diversity. You will write four personal essays of your own for the class, each of which will receive workshop discussion in class and response from me; you will then revise the essays to polish them for possible publication. One of your essays will be an investigative one, where you will focus on a subject of your choice, investigate it thoroughly, and then write with authority about it. The process of the class will encourage you to both improve your writing significantly and gain a greater understanding of experiences of people who are in some way like you as well as those who are in some way different. http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=c79a41d2d84ae47466f099b1064bd397 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-731-2-writing-and-experience-crossing-borders-fall-2010 Faery, Rebecca Blevins 2011-10-19T13:29:28+05:00 21W.731-2 en-US globalization diversity culture contemporary issues language and representation writing workshop crossing borders origins critical writing oral presentation contemporary issues race class investigative journalism MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course introduces writing, graphics, meetings, oral presentation, collaboration, and design as tools for product development. The communication instruction is embedded in design projects that require students to work in teams to conceive, design, prototype and evaluate energy related products. The communication instruction focuses on the communication tasks that are integral to this design process, ranging, across design notebooks, email communications, informal oral presentations, meeting etiquette, literature searches, white papers reports, and formal presentations. In addition to the assignments specific to product development, a few assignments, especially reading and reflection, will address the cultural situation of engineers and engineering in the world at large. http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=a87599fe8ee451f41cf9f62c8cbcc277 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-732-science-writing-and-new-media-fall-2010 Custer, David Page, Elizabeth A. 2011-06-21T10:58:00+05:00 21W.732 ES.21W732 en-US writing communication science writing new media oral presentation collaboration design product development MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course is an introduction to the theory, the practice, and the implications (both social and ethical) of rhetoric, the art and craft of persuasion. This semester, many of your skills will have the opportunity to be deepened by practice, including your analytical and critical thinking skills, your persuasive writing skills, and your oral presentation skills. In this course you will act as both a rhetor (a person who uses rhetoric) and as a rhetorical critic (one who studies the art of rhetoric). Both write to persuade; both ask and answer important questions. Always one of their goals is to create new knowledge for all of us, so no endeavor in this class is a "mere exercise." http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=2f812ba6b4be24cb21cc6ae85a93c775 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-747-1-rhetoric-spring-2010 Strang, Steven 2010-10-08T09:46:55+05:00 21W.747-1 en-US ethics rhetoric persuasion analytical skills critical thinking persuasive writing oral presentation MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm "Becoming Digital" traces the change in practice, theory and possibility as mechanical and chemical media are augmented or supplanted by digital media. These changes will be grounded in a semester length study of "reports from the front." These reports, found and introduced by students throughout the semester, are the material produced by and about soldiers and civilians on the battlefield from the introduction of wet photography during the Crimean and Civil Wars to contemporary digital content posted daily to Web 2.0 sites from areas such as Iraq and Afghanistan and possibly even the games and simulations they've inspired. Students will work through the ethical, aesthetic, technical and cultural problems raised by the primary content and secondary readings in three papers, a group project written with Inform 7, a presentation, and frequent discussion. http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=79e0a338ed5940a64600301d1c07dcce http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-784-becoming-digital-writing-about-media-change-fall-2009 Miller, Ben 2010-07-20T00:30:15+05:00 21W.784 en-US Writing culture digital computer technology daily lives communicate business information entertain media values ethical aesthetic images texts sounds people property history identity movies games music digital channels content outline digital content channels digital media options digital influence digital marketers digital destinations behavioral targeting digital marketing digital platform digital games mobile marketing smart agents generating awareness. MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course provides the opportunity for students-as readers, viewers, writers and speakers-to engage with social and ethical issues they care deeply about. Over the course of the semester, through discussing the writing of classic and contemporary authors, we will explore different perspectives on a range of social issues such as free speech, poverty and homelessness, mental illness, capital punishment and racial and gender inequality. In addition, we will analyze selected documentary and feature films and photographs that represent or dramatize social problems or issues. In assigned essays, students will have the opportunity to write about social and ethical issues of their own choice. This course aims to help students to grow significantly in their ability to understand and grapple with arguments, to integrate secondary print and visual sources and to craft well-reasoned and elegant essays. Students will also keep a reading journal and give oral presentations. In class we will discuss assigned texts, explore strategies for successful academic writing, freewrite and respond to one another's essays. http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=50fe6ad9cc26970e076694c4f9a34ca2 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-730-writing-on-contemporary-issues-social-and-ethical-issues-spring-2010 Walsh, Andrea 2010-06-15T14:26:41+05:00 21W.730 en-US Writing on contemporary issues social issues ethical issues contemporary culture culture shock urban and environmental crises issues of race and gender media saturation language and representation writing workshop uncertainty confusion assimilating assimilation current MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course is an introduction to the history, theory, practice, and implications of rhetoric, the art and craft of persuasion throughAnalyzing persuasive texts and speechesCreating persuasive texts and speechesThrough class discussions, presentations, and written assignments, you will get to practice your own rhetorical prowess. Through the readings, you'll also learn some ways to make yourself a more efficient reader, as you turn your analytical skills on the texts themselves. This combination of reading, speaking, and writing will help you succeed in:learningto read and think criticallytechniques of rhetorical analysistechniques of argumentto enhance your written and oral discourse with appropriate figures of speechsome techniques of oral presentation and the use of visual aids and visual rhetoric. http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=81621c429f4850364d102007be2af25d http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-747-classical-rhetoric-and-modern-political-discourse-fall-2009 Perelman, Leslie 2010-06-10T15:28:46+05:00 21W.747 en-US ethics rhetoric persuasion analytical skills critical thinking persuasive writing oral presentation Classical Rhetoric Modern Political Discourse classical rhetoric; modern politics MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course is an introduction to the great tradition of documentary photography. Students learn to see the world around them in a new way and produce a documentary project. The course requires reading and writing about photography, as well as doing it on a regular basis. The class emphasis is on thinking about why people photograph, what photographs do and do not mean to us, and on doing documentary work, on telling stories with photographs. This is not a technical class, and it should not be considered an "introduction to photography." I work on the assumption that any student signing up for the class has at least a minimal sense of the difference between f stops and T stops, and can find his or her way around a camera. While there will be some technical discussion in class, it will be limited. http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=948a883d70b752f66506845d5d9004fb http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-749-documentary-photography-and-photojournalism-still-images-of-a-world-in-motion-spring-2009 Colen, B. D. 2010-03-08T19:07:49+05:00 21W.749 CMS.935 en-US Photography photojournalism writing journalism documentary news image photo camera picture newspaper magazine MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm The science essay uses science to think about the human condition; it uses humanistic thinking to reflect on the possibilities and limits of science and technology. In this class we read and practice writing science essays of varied lengths and purposes. We will read a wide variety of science essays, ranging across disciplines, both to learn more about this genre and to inspire your own writing. This semester's reading centers on "The Dark Side," with essays ranging from Alan Lightman's "Prisoner of the Wired World" through Robin Marantz Henig's cautionary account of nano-technology ("Our Silver-Coated Future") to David Quammen's investigation of diseases that jump from animals to humans ("Deadly Contact"). http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=4e049c758e21cd6669365e721bd7f55f http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-777-the-science-essay-spring-2009 Boiko, Karen 2009-10-06T20:15:41+05:00 21W.777 en-US technology creative non-fiction science writing technology and society science technology and society memoir biography reflection popular science science literature public understanding of science policy debate journalism nature nature writing ecology health medicine culture cultural context mind matter scientific natural reality virtual Darwin life discover machine natural history reality machine educational technology design and experimentation education reform standards and standardized testing MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm In The Souls of Black Folk (1903), the great cultural critic W. E. B. Du Bois wrote that "...the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line." A century after Du Bois penned those words, most Americans would agree that at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the color line remains one of our most pressing social issues. In this course, we will explore the terrain of race in America by reading the works of writers of color and others concerned with the issue of race, by viewing films that address racial issues, and by writing to explore how the fictions and facts of race condition all our lives, social and civic, private and public. We will consider the complex question of racial identity, test the givens of history by uncovering histories that have been more elusive or more thoroughly suppressed, and explore how writing and reading can both reflect and challenge racial categories, hierarchies, and perceptions. We will read the work of such writers as Suzan-Lori Parks, Toni Morrison, Sandra Cisneros, James Baldwin, Louise Erdrich, Amy Tan, Chang-Rae Lee, Jhumpa Lahiri, and William Faulkner, among others, as we consider the story of race in its peculiarly American dimensions. We will also view films such as Skins, The Long Walk Home, and Crash. Both the reading and the writing of members of the class will be the focus of class discussion and workshops. Students explore race and ethnicity in personal essays, pieces of cultural criticism or analysis, or (with permission of instructor) fiction. http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=2d0d41dd028bae17e2f1bd1bb000cd6c http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-742j-writing-about-race-spring-2007 Faery, Rebecca Blevins 2009-06-25T10:59:10+05:00 21W.742J SP.575J WGS.575J en-US race writing multiracial multi-race mixed-race multiraciality multiple descent hybrid populations mixed ancestry race assimilation integration ethnicity identity self heritage multicultural mixed heritage mulato mestizo MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm In this course we will read essays, novels, memoirs, and graphic texts, and view documentary and experimental films and videos which explore race from the standpoint of the multiracial. Examining the varied work of multiracial authors and filmmakers such as Danzy Senna, Ruth Ozeki, Kip Fulbeck, James McBride and others, we will focus not on how multiracial people are seen or imagined by the dominant culture, but instead on how they represent themselves. How do these authors approach issues of family, community, nation, language and history? What can their work tell us about the complex interconnections between race, gender, class, sexuality, and citizenship? Is there a relationship between their experiences of multiraciality and a willingness to experiment with form and genre? In addressing these and other questions, we will endeavor to think and write more critically and creatively about race as a social category and a lived experience. http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=a3784172eabdb0672e9cb58d19931199 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-742j-writing-about-race-narratives-of-multiraciality-fall-2008 Ragusa, Kym L. 2009-05-26T17:26:25+05:00 21W.742J SP.575J WGS.575J en-US multiracial multi-race mixed-race multiraciality multiple descent hybrid populations mixed ancestry race assimilation integration ethnicity identity self heritage multicultural mixed heritage mulato mestizo oppression immigration diaspora racism sterotype family cultural studies MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course is an introduction to writing prose for a public audience—specifically, prose that is both critical and personal, that features your ideas, your perspective, and your voice to engage readers. The focus of our reading and your writing will be American popular culture, broadly defined. That is, you will write essays that critically engage elements and aspects of contemporary American popular culture and that do so via a vivid personal voice and presence. In the coming weeks we will read a number of pieces that address current issues in popular culture. These readings will address a great many subjects from the contemporary world to launch and elaborate an argument or position or refined observation. And you yourselves will write a great deal, attending always to the ways your purpose in writing and your intended audience shape what and how you write. The end result of our collaborative work will be a new edition, the seventh, of Culture Shock!, an online magazine of writings on American popular culture, which we will post on the Web for the worldwide reading public to enjoy. http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=2d60926eb71e4904b0c461517f897206 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-730-5-writing-on-contemporary-issues-culture-shock-writing-editing-and-publishing-in-cyberspace-fall-2008 Faery, Rebecca Blevins 2009-05-07T14:18:34+05:00 21W.730-5 en-US contemporary contemporary issues culture culture shock urban and environmental crises economic imperialism sexual and reproductive politics the ethics of biotechnologies issues of race and gender the romance of technology robotics and cyborg cultures media saturation language and representation writing workshop Honeymoon Phase Negotiation Phase Adjustment Phase Reverse Culture Shock anxiety feelings surprise disorientation uncertainty confusion assimilating current MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm "What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world." - Marcella Hazan, The Classic Italian Cookbook If you are what you eat, what are you? Food is at once the stuff of life and a potent symbol; it binds us to the earth, to our families, and to our cultures. In this class, we explore many of the fascinating issues that surround food as both material fact and personal and cultural symbol. We read essays by Toni Morrison, Michael Pollan, Wendell Berry, and others on such topics as family meals, eating as an "agricultural act" (Berry), slow food, and food's ability to awaken us to "our own powers of enjoyment" (M. F. K. Fisher). We will also read Pollan's most recent book, In Defense of Food, and discuss the issues it raises as well as its rhetorical strategies. Assigned essays will grow out of memories and the texts we read, and may include personal narrative as well as essays that depend on research. Revision of essays and workshop review of writing in progress are an important part of the class. Each student will make one oral presentation in this class. http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=17a28e8f462d5825c0f514d57e058400 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-730-4-writing-on-contemporary-issues-food-for-thought-writing-and-reading-about-the-cultures-of-food-fall-2008 Boiko, Karen 2009-05-07T14:17:23+05:00 21W.730-4 en-US food hunger good calories lipid hypothesis diet nutrients unhappy meals nutritionism cuisine carbohydrates fats proteins water plants animals fungus or fermented products like alcohol human cultures hunting and gathering farming ranching fishing MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course is a workshop for students with some experience in writing essays, nonfiction prose. Our focus will be negotiating and representing identities grounded in gender, race, class, nationality, sexuality, and other categories of identity, either our own or others', in prose that is expository, exploratory, investigative, persuasive, lyrical, or incantatory. We will read nonfiction prose works by a wide array of writers who have used language to negotiate and represent aspects of identity and the ways the different determinants of identity intersect, compete, and cooperate. http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=fa1d7556aab82803731c7ef801e9a85c http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-745-advanced-essay-workshop-spring-2008 Faery, Rebecca Blevins 2009-05-07T14:17:27+05:00 21W.745 SP.576 WGS.576 en-US Workshop advanced students writing essays nonfiction prose identities gender race class nationality sexuality identity expository exploratory investigative persuasive lyrical incantatory determinants of identity intersect compete cooperate MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Did Ben Franklin really fly that kite? What are the ethical dimensions of the creation of chimeras—and what should the public know in order to take part in the conversation about them? Is the science of nutrition really science? How did the technology of birth control end up in the delivery system that we know as "the pill"? Is it possible to time travel—and why would scientists even spend time thinking about it? In this class we celebrate, analyze and practice the art of writing about science for the general public. We read and write humanities-style essays about the intersections among science, technology, and life. Students draw on their own interests and ideas to write essays of substance and grace that focus on science and technology. We'll read models of a variety of approaches to the science essay, including essays by Alan Lightman, Malcolm Gladwell, Elizabeth Kolbert, Oliver Sacks and others, noting in particular how they bring scientific ideas to life for readers. Topics for discussion will include the challenge of explaining scientific concepts; the "personal realm" (Kanigel) of science; myth vs. science; fairness and objectivity in scientific writing; and the "non-quantifiable considerations" (Collini) that are necessarily part of conversations about science. Students will write 5 essays, revising 4 of them, and polishing (re-revising). The class will also have a service learning component, in which MIT students work with a local high school class. Note: this is not a technical writing class. http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=a199f18431a3104cd4441ac0f900e3e8 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-777-the-science-essay-spring-2008 Boiko, Karen 2009-01-29T14:07:40+05:00 21W.777 en-US technology creative non-fiction science writing technology and society science technology and society memoir biography reflection popular science science literature public understanding of science policy debate journalism nature nature writing ecology health medicine culture cultural context MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Turn-of-the-century eras have historically been times when people are more than usually inclined to scrutinize the present and speculate about the future. Now, the turn not just of a century but of a millennium having recently passed, such scrutiny and speculations inevitably intensify. What will the future that awaits us in this twenty-first century and beyond be like? And how do visions of that future reflect and respond to the world we live in now? In this course we will read and write about how some writers and filmmakers have responded to the present as a way of imagining—and warning about—possible worlds to come. Guided by our reading and discussion, we will scrutinize our own present and construct our own visions of the future through close readings of the texts as well as of some aspects of contemporary culture—urban and environmental crises, economic imperialism, sexual and reproductive politics, the ethics of biotechnologies, issues of race and gender, the romance of technology, robotics and cyborg cultures, media saturation, language and representation—and the persistent questions they pose about what it means to be human at this start of a new millennium. http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=b382dd340d69def39f72d1607df48561 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-730-5-writing-on-contemporary-issues-imagining-the-future-fall-2007 Faery, Rebecca Blevins 2008-07-22T15:53:11+05:00 21W.730-5 en-US urban and environmental crises economic imperialism sexual and reproductive politics the ethics of biotechnologies issues of race and gender the romance of technology robotics and cyborg cultures media saturation language and representation writing workshop MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course focuses on traditional nature writing and the environmentalist essay. Students will keep a Web log as a journal. Writings are drawn from the tradition of nature writing and from contemporary forms of the environmentalist essay. http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=81c2558ce679084e00a99fee20c45333 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-775-writing-about-nature-and-environmental-issues-fall-2006 Lioi, Anthony 2007-05-07T01:15:07+05:00 21W.775 en-US American nature writing environmental journalism environmentalist essay MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course is designed to help you develop skills that will enable you to produce clear and effective scientific and technical documents. We will focus on basic principles of good writing-which scientific and technical writing shares with other forms of writing-and on types of documents common in scientific and technical fields and organizations. While the emphasis will be on writing, oral communication of scientific and technical information will form an important component of the course, as well. http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=502c0a13447d80fe6f6ef83b731fd43e http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-732-5-introduction-to-technical-communication-explorations-in-scientific-and-technical-writing-fall-2006 Unger, Donald N. S. 2007-05-01T02:01:05+05:00 21W.732-5 en-US scienticifc writing scientific documents technical documents argument review critique graphics email webpage writing webpage design literature reivew narrative essay technical description design proposal MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Over the course of the semester we will explore the full range of writings by physicians and other health practitioners. Some of the writer/physicians that we encounter will be Atul Gawande, Danielle Ofri, Richard Selzer, and William Carlos Williams. Students need have no special training, only a general interest in medicine or in public health issues such as AIDS, asthma, malaria control, and obesity. The writing assignments, like the readings, will invite students to consider the distinctive needs of different audiences. http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=6700e14dd0752c8bb1aba88558649bd2 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-732-1-introduction-to-technical-communication-perspectives-on-medicine-and-public-health-spring-2007 Taft, Cynthia 2007-04-16T01:49:45+05:00 21W.732-1 en-US MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm