Content tagged "writing"
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Workshop on Academic Argument
In one 2-hour workshop addressed to the MIT community (faculty, TAs and grad students especially welcome) we propose to explore written argument across several academic disciplines.
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Thesis Boot Camp: Exercises and Strategies for Writing a Major Technical Report
This IAP workshop will offer students a strategic and intense opportunity to prepare for their upcoming thesis or other large writing project.
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Writing Your Dissertation? Writing Your Proposal? Planning Ahead?
Get resources, strategies, and tips to streamline your writing process.
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The Matter of Facts
How do we, as instructors value facts? How do we, or might we, make this valuing explicit in our teaching?
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Stories of Our Lives: Autobiographical Writing for Everyone
This two hour workshop is a bite-sized sample of one of our most popular introductory writing classes, Reading and Writing Autobiography.
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Communicating Science to the Public
Vivid lessons and hands-on practice in communicating scientific research to a general audience.
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Communicating with Graphics
In this workshop, we’ll explore guidelines to develop visual representations of your important concepts. Bring your visualization challenges to the workshop.
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Writing Successful Proposals
At the heart of this workshop is a conceptual framework for proposal writing, centered around the baseline logic of the proposal as a genre, and the associated rhetorical moves within proposal sections.
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MIT Writers’ Group
Want to write something creative but need some motivation or support or some thoughtful readers? Join other MIT writers to get advice about your own writing.
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Individual Consultations at the Writing and Communication Center
Go to https://mit.mywconline.com to register and to schedule appointments. Open to MIT undergraduate students, graduate students, post-docs, faculty, staff, spouses and partners, visiting scientists and scholars.
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When Going to the Bathroom Becomes Scary
The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) reports that every six seconds–every six fleeting seconds–diabetes takes another person’s life.
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SENSEable City Lab Is Rethinking Urban Planning from the Underground Up
Theresa Machemer’s DeWitt Wallace Prize-winning piece for science writing for the public.
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The Impact of Autophagy on Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) Development
A review of the role that autophagy plays in PDAC development, the essential genes that control autophagy, and targeting autophagy as a means of PDAC therapy. Third prize winner for the 2017 S. Klein Prizes for technical writing.
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A Diagnosing Challenge
Computer scientists challenge machine learning to make strides in pathology.
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The Green Chillies
“The Green Chillies” won second place for the 2017 Robert A. Boit Writing Prize for short stories.
