MIT Writers presents . . .
SOMETHING MORE, SOMETHING DEEPER:
THE EXPERIENCE OF UNDERGRADUATE WRITING
A report from a longitudinal study of the Harvard Class of 2001
NANCY SOMMERS
BARTOS THEATER - E15
5 - 7 PM - Thursday, September 30, 1999
Nancy Sommers - Sosland Director of Expository Writing at Harvard University
Nancy Sommers directs both the Expository Writing Program and the Harvard Writing Project. She has written award winning essays that have become standard texts in composition theory and writing pedagogy. Professor Sommers will present an in-progress report of the extensive study of the role of writing in undergraduate education that she is conducting for Harvard President Neil Rudenstine.
RESPONDENTS
David Thorburn - Professor of Literature at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Thorburn regularly teaches subjects in film, modern fiction and comedy. A former Director of the Film and Media Studies Program and of the Cultural Studies Project, he is currently Director of the MIT Communications Forum. Professor Thorburn has published widely on literary and cultural subjects and is currently completing a cultural history of American television, to be called STORY MACHINE.
Steven Pinker - Professor of Cognitive Science and Director of the McDonnell-Pew Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Steven Pinker is an internationally recognized author of studies of the nature of language and its relation to mind and the brain. Professor Pinker is the author of HOW THE MIND WORKS, and THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT.
Free and open to the public
Sponsored by the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies
For more information, call 617/253-7894
MIT Program in Writing - 77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
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