Writing Undergraduate Degrees in Maynard

...intervals throughout the semester. It is absolutely essential that you do not fall behind in this. This work will receive professional performance at the end of the semester...

...with tools of rhetorical analysis, design, and production. Each essay will be graded according to the following scale: For each essay, you will have...

...minuet and trio and the relationship of form, key and "tone" that characteristically exists between them. Final deadline: two days before Lec #12...

...and design as tools for product development. The communication instruction is embedded in design projects that require students to work in teams to conceive... Learn about: Communication Training, New Media, Team Training...

...in developing ideas based on your own experience and heightening your awareness of the audience(s) you write for. Essay 2 (5 pages) will ask you to analyze...

... 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...

...many of our classes will be conversations. So if everyone doesn't participate, everyone misses out. To participate well, you will have to have read...

... in terms of their implicit theories of autobiography, of theories we read, and of students' experiences; assignments also allow some autobiographical writing...

...Class participation, homework and drafts make up the remaining one third. As a rough measure, an A means that I would want the author writing documents in my...

...Jonathan Kozol and Michael Pollan. We will also discuss different rhetorical strategies that aim to increase awareness of social problems, to educate... Learn about: Social Change...

...The four major writing assignments (first and revised versions) are three essays and a short story (or fourth essay). This course offers a service-learning... Learn about: Maya training...

... media in shaping our ideas of self, family and community and in defining social issues. Throughout the semester, students will focus on writing as a process of drafting and revising to create essays that are lively, clear, engaging and meaningful to a wider audience... Learn about: Communication Training...

...as well as of some aspects of contemporary culture—urban and environmental crises, economic imperialism, sexual and reproductive politics, the ethics of biotechnologies... Learn about: Quality Training...

...This class requires 4 writing assignments totaling 24 pages. Those assignments are 3 papers that total 21 pages in length, and one group project requiring... Learn about: Team Training...

...you will know what questions to ask. You will know what the primary issues are and your research will be easier to conduct. In other words, your questions will be richer...

...on time and attend class regularly can expect their final grade to suffer. Your grade will be based on: Five shorter written assignments: Extended definition...

... 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... Learn about: Oral Communication, Communication Training...

...in the pages linked along the left. MIT OpenCourseWare is a free & open publication of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum... Learn about: Communication Training, New Media...

...two shorter essays (4-6 pages) and one longer, comparative essay (9-10 pages), the last one. I will ask for brief proposals for the last essay...

... and technical writing. We will also explore the effects of new media as avenues for communicating about science... Learn about: New Media...