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Writing and Rhetoric: Writing about Sports

21W.015 · Comparative Media Studies/Writing · Undergraduate · Fall 2013

Karen Boiko

MIT · Tier 1

<p>“Sports, not religion, is the opiate of the people.” So says David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker and a former sportswriter. Many of our heroes are sports heroes, and for many of us, sports were an important part of our childhood years. Sports are big business, even on college campuses, and they are the subject of many classic movies. In this introductory writing class we consider the role of sports in our own lives and explore the cultural meanings of sports in America. Sports have produ…

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Karen Boiko. 21W.015 Writing and Rhetoric: Writing about Sports. Fall 2013. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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