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21W.777 The Science Essay, Spring 2004
(2004-06)
Drawing in part from their own interests and ideas, students write about science within a broad cultural context. Students employ a broad repertoire of literary tools, such as narrative, scene-setting, and attention to ...
21W.730-4 Writing on Contemporary Issues: Food for Thought: Writing and Reading about the Cultures of Food, Fall 2008
(2008-12)
"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 ...
21W.730-2 Expository Writing - Food for Thought: Writing and Reading about Food and Culture, Fall 2005
(2005-12)
"Civilization is mostly the story of how seeds, meats, and ways to cook them travel from place to place." - Adam Gopnik, "What's Cooking" "A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one's accurate consciousness of ...
21W.777 The Science Essay, Spring 2008
(2008-06)
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 ...
21W.035 Science Writing and New Media: Elements of Science Writing for the Public, Spring 2013
(2013-06)
This class is an introduction to writing about science–including nature, medicine, and technology–for general readers. In our reading and writing we explore the craft of making scientific concepts, and the work ...
RES.21W-01 Angles, Spring 2010
(2010-06)
Angles is an annual online magazine of exemplary writing by students in four foundational writing courses at MIT: 21W.730: Writing on Contemporary Issues; 21W.731: Writing and Experience; 21W.732: Science Writing and New ...
21W.730-3 Consumer Culture, Fall 2002
(2002-12)
What is the good life, and can you shop there? Would you want that life if you couldn't? Has shopping replaced working as the activity that gives the most meaning to our lives? The theme for this Expository Writing class ...
21W.730-2 The Creative Spark, Fall 2004
(2004-12)
"Creative activity (isn't) the icing on the cake. Human creativity is the cake." (Jerry Hirschberg) Creativity - "the mastery of information and skills in the service of dreams" (Hirschberg) - is ...