MIT Writers’ Group
Join other writers to get advice about your own writing, to help other writers, or to get inspiration to write something to share with the group.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Individual Consultations at the Writing and Communication Center
The Writing and Communications Center will offer free consultation on oral presentations and any writing problem.
Alchemists and Mad Scientists: from Faust to Dr. Strangelove
We will trace the development in mass media of the evolution of alchemists into mad scientists, using the films "Faust," "Metropolis," "The Bride of Frankenstein," and "Dr. Strangelove" as our texts.
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Integrating Communication Instruction in CI Subjects: A Writing Across the Curriculum IAP Workshop
We'll explore how instructors can break down assignments to demystify research, writing, and presentation in their fields.
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Learn to Knit!
Learn to Knit!
Participants will learn the basic stitches, knit and purl, and other skills to make their first project.
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Powerful Feedback: Strategies for Responding to Student Writing: A Writing Across the Curriculum IAP Workshop
Powerful Feedback: Strategies for Responding to Student Writing: A Writing Across the Curriculum IAP Workshop
What kind of feedback will help students understand how to revise their essays, reports or articles, or to write their next assignment more effectively?
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Oral Presentations and the Academic Conversation: A Writing Across the Curriculum IAP Workshop
Oral Presentations and the Academic Conversation: A Writing Across the Curriculum IAP Workshop
This interactive workshop is geared to instructors across the disciplines who are interested in integrating oral presentation into their classes
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Annotation Studio Workshop
Annotation Studio Workshop
In this hands-on workshop you'll learn how to create, tag, link, and share annotations in web-based environments.
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Nostalgia for a Not-So-Distant Youth: Digital Games and Affect in Urban China
Nostalgia for a Not-So-Distant Youth: Digital Games and Affect in Urban China
Marcella Szablewicz: "Are games the imagined utopia they are made out to be in these nostalgic accounts or might these affective attachments prove to be a form of what Lauren Berlant has called cruel optimism?"
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Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News
Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News
How is new access to the power of the visual changing our journalism? What current projects are particularly significant?
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Gregory Crane: “Automated Methods, Human Understanding, and Digital Libraries of Babel”
Gregory Crane: “Automated Methods, Human Understanding, and Digital Libraries of Babel”
The challenges and opportunities of a hyperlingual dialogue among civilizations, where humans work with machines and with each other to communicate and where books do talk to each other.
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A Conversation with Nate Silver
A Conversation with Nate Silver
Statistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver will discuss his career -- from student journalist to baseball prognosticator to the creator of FiveThirtyEight.com.
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