IAP 99 For-Credit Subjects


Writing & Humanistic Studies

21W.731
Writing and Experience
Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno
Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Mon, Jan 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 10am-04:00pm, 56-162

Selection by departmental lottery. Do not pre-register on WebSIS.
Limited to 18 students.
No listeners
Prereq: —
Level: U 12 units Standard A - F Grading
Students study the mechanisms by which fiction writers, essayists, and poets transform their experience into scenes, voices, and arguments. Attention given to sentence mechanics, paragraphing, punctuation, and word choice. In weekly workshops, students present their writing to members of the group, and extensive revising is required. Satisfies Phase I of the Writing Requirement.
SIGN UP IN PERSON ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, IN 14E-303, FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.
Contact: Nicholas Altenbernd, 14E-303, x3-7894, altenb@mit.edu

21W.789
Writing About the Environment: An Intensive Writing Workshop
Barbara Goldoftas
Thu, Fri, Tue, Wed, Jan 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 10am-04:30pm, 14N-325, NOTE SPECIAL MEETING TIMES

Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.
Limited to 15 students.
No listeners
Prereq: None
Level: U 9 units Standard A - F Grading
In this intensive writing workshop, students will read and write about natural and urban environments, exploring how our surroundings affect us and how we form, cultivate, and change them. We will compare how different writers view environmentalism and their own environment, looking at U.S. and international examples. Three essays based on readings, research, and experience.
Class meets on 1/14,15 at 10:00-12:00 & 1:30-4:30, and on 1/19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27 at 1:00-5:00 only.
Contact: Nicholas Altenbernd, 14E-303, x3-7894, altenb@mit.edu

21W.794
Graduate Technical Writing Workshop
David Custer
Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.
Limited to 50 students.
Listeners welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: —
Level: G 2 units Standard A - F Grading
Draft a thesis proposal, thesis chapter, journal article, progress report, or specification, and review basics of engineering writing. Sessions cover the processes of organizing and drafting professional papers, improving writing style, and revising documents. Students determine own projects; each project increment receives instructor's editorial suggestions.
Please note that each of these sections meets for 3 DAYS -- please see revised schedule for each section.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/21w794/www/794syllabus.html
Contact: Nicholas Altenbernd, 14E-303, x3-7894, altenb@mit.edu

Civil & Environmental Engineering
David Custer
Mon, Thu, Jan 4, 7, 11, 09am-12:00pm, 2-132

Mechanical Engineering, Media Studies
David Custer
Mon, Thu, Jan 4, 7, 11, 01-04:00pm, 2-132

Ocean Engineering, Technology and Policy Program
David Custer
Tue, Fri, Jan 5, 8, 12, 09am-12:00pm, 2-132

Aeronautics and Astronautics, Chemical Engineering
David Custer
Tue, Fri, Jan 5, 8, 12, 01-04:00pm, 2-132

21W.798
Special Topics in Writing
Letter Writing
Bill Corbett
Mon Jan 11, Tue Jan 12, Wed Jan 13, Thu Jan 14, Fri Jan 15, 02-04:30pm, 56-169

Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.
Limited to 15 students.
No listeners
Prereq: —
Level: U 3 units Graded P/D/F
The letter is perhaps our most ubiquitous yet least studied form of writing. Letters can be intimate or business-like, treasured or tossed out, paper-based or digital (as in the hybrid form of e-mail). Letters permit us to write in a range of voices and styles, and can give us a privileged insight into another person's view of life. We will read and discuss some published letters by several well known authors, and we will practice this supple art form by writing letters of different kinds. Copies of letters written by the class will be shared for discussion about form and style. This activity is the first of a series of activities and communication-intensive subjects developed by the Institute in memory of Constantine B. Simonides, Vice President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Secretary of the Corporation. Among Constantine's many gifts to his children, family, colleagues and friends were his letters, written to celebrate, counsel, console or simply converse in another form. The rich insights, personal warmth, and wide ranging knowledge he expressed in these documents demonstrate the continuing value of letters as an enduring and irreplaceable form of human communication.
Contact: Nicholas Altenbernd, 14E-303, x3-7894, altenb@mit.edu


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