Content tagged "writing"
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Event: Thursday, February 1, 2018 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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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Event: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 @ 10:00 am - Thursday, February 1, 2018 @ 1:00 pm
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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Event: Thursday, January 25, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Writing Your Dissertation? Writing Your Proposal? Planning Ahead?
Get resources, strategies, and tips to streamline your writing process.
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Event: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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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Event: Monday, January 22, 2018 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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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Event: Thursday, January 18, 2018 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Communicating Science to the Public
Vivid lessons and hands-on practice in communicating scientific research to a general audience.
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Event: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 11:15 am
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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Event: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - Thursday, January 11, 2018
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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Event: Monday, January 8, 2018 - Monday, January 29, 2018
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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Event: Monday, January 8, 2018 - Tuesday, January 30, 2018
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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Posted by Steven Truong
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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Posted by Theresa Machemer
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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Posted by Yasuko Mano
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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Posted by Kate Telma S.M., Science Writing, 2017
A Diagnosing Challenge
Computer scientists challenge machine learning to make strides in pathology.
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Posted by Kishore Patra
The Green Chillies
“The Green Chillies” won second place for the 2017 Robert A. Boit Writing Prize for short stories.