21W.730-4 Expository Writing: Analyzing Mass Media, Spring 2001
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Walsh, Andrea
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Expository Writing: Analyzing Mass Media
Date Issued
June 2001
Abstract
This course focuses on developing and refining the skills that will you need to express your voice more effectively as an academic writer. As a focus for our writing this semester, this course explores what it means to live in the age of mass media. We will debate the power of popular American media in shaping our ideas of self, family and community and in defining social issues. Throughout the semester, students will focus on writing as a process of drafting and revising to create essays that are lively, clear, engaging and meaningful to a wider audience.
Subjects
Expository writing
analyzing
mass
media
voice
academic
writing
self-discovery
critical thinking
communicating
audience
drafting
revising
essays
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Comparative Media Studies/Writing
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