Graduate Technical Writing Workshop
21W.794 · Comparative Media Studies/Writing · Graduate · January IAP 2019
Caroline Beimford, Dr. Andreas Karatsolis, Dr. Suzanne T. Lane, Dr. Leslie Ann Roldan, Dr. Jessie Stickgold-Sarah
<p>This course is designed to improve the student’s ability to communicate technical information. It covers the basics of working with sources, including summarizing and paraphrasing, synthesizing source materials, citing, quoting, and avoiding plagiarism. It also covers how to write an abstract and a literature review. In addition, we will cover communication concepts, tools, and strategies that can help you understand how engineering texts work, and how you can make your texts work more effec…
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Caroline Beimford, Dr. Andreas Karatsolis, Dr. Suzanne T. Lane, Dr. Leslie Ann Roldan, Dr. Jessie Stickgold-Sarah. 21W.794 Graduate Technical Writing Workshop. January IAP 2019. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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