Expository Writing: Analyzing Mass Media

A woman from the early 20th century hodling up a pack of cigarettes

An advertisement for "Egyptian Deities" cigarettes shows a woman holding a package of cigarettes, c. 1900. (Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [reproduction number, LC-USZ62-102351 (b&w film copy neg.)].)

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MIT Course Number

21W.730-4

As Taught In

Spring 2001

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Description

Course Features

Course Description

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.

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Andrea Walsh. 21W.730-4 Expository Writing: Analyzing Mass Media. Spring 2001. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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