Graduate Technical Writing Workshop
Designed to improve the student's ability to communicate technical information. Covers central communication concepts and techniques, including audience, discourse, and genre analysis; strategies for effectively managing, integrating, and documenting information from sources; and methods of structuring information for coherence and credibility. Assignments include an abstract, a literature review, and an oral presentation; students provide feedback to each other. Limited to graduate engineering students based on results of the Graduate Writing Exam.
January IAP 2019
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 effectively. This course is limited to MIT graduate engineering students based on results of the {{% resource_link "7e3fe93e-5603-4c20-a689-77b11ec9146b" "Graduate Writing Exam" %}}.
Readings
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: Permission of instructor G (IAP) 1-0-2 units
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗January IAP 2019
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.