A young man writes on his laptop. (Image courtesy of eelke dekker on flickr. License CC BY.)
Instructor(s)
Caroline Beimford
Dr. Andreas Karatsolis
Dr. Suzanne T. Lane
Dr. Leslie Ann Roldan
Dr. Jessie Stickgold-Sarah
MIT Course Number
21W.794
As Taught In
January IAP 2019
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
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 Graduate Writing Exam.