21W.775 Writing about Nature and Environmental Issues, Spring 2006

Lioi, Anthony

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Lioi, Anthony

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Writing about Nature and Environmental Issues

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Abstract

This course focuses on traditional nature writing and the environmentalist essay. Students will keep a web log as a journal. Writings are drawn from the tradition of nature writing and from contemporary forms of the environmentalist essay. Authors include Henry Thoreau, Loren Eiseley, Annie Dillard, Chet Raymo, Sue Hubbel, Rachel Carson, Bill McKibben, and Terry Tempest Williams.

Date issued

2006-06

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39138

Department

MIT Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies

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21W.775-Spring2006

local: 21W.775

local: IMSCP-MD5-0708d4334960124f74643c746a5a8b5a

Keywords

American nature writing, environmental journalism, environmentalist essay

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