What messages and ideologies are embedded in the games we play, why does it matter, and how can we do better? In this two day workshop, we will look at contemporary board games with colonialist themes set in the Americas.
Explore the process of creating interesting, complex, and believable characters from the ground, up. Emphasis will be on writing for feature-length narrative film rather than episodic television or short films.
The session is geared to the needs of first-time grant proposal writers, but all levels of experience are welcome.
This workshop, developed by the Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication Program (WRAP), will provide conceptual lessons and hands-on practice in communicating scientific research to a general audience.
Best-selling author Micah Nathan tells you "what I’ve done right in my career, what I’ve done wrong, and I’ll offer suggestions on both world-building and character-building."
The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world's largest game jam event taking place around the world at physical locations. Think of it as a hackathon focused on game development.
Use some thought-provoking writing exercises to help us open up our memories and choose significant moments to write about.
This workshop, hosted by the Graduate Program in Science Writing, will help scientists understand how to communicate complicated research to the general public. Topics to be covered include journalism and mass communication, interviewing, social media, personal websites, science outreach, and science writing -- as well as specific topics of interest highlighted by workshop participants.
This workshop reviews different types of fundraising writing, such as grant proposals, crowdsourcing approaches and donation appeal letters.
Join other MIT writers to get advice about your own writing, to be a reader of other writers' work, and/or to get inspiration to write something.
An activity-based writing workshop for anyone who builds anything at MIT and beyond, or who dreams of doing so. The workshop will introduce techniques in writing for designers who rely on written or oral communication to generate interest in a design idea or prototype.
Join us every Friday afternoon for discotheque history and classic grooves!
A workshop for writers of any skill level who are interested in learning more about poetry or expanding their rhetorical toolkit by using language in more precise, innovative ways.
Learn strategies to manage time, meet other writers, and complete your dissertation.
Lightning in a Panel: American Comics and the Graphic Novel is a one week IAP offering that tackles the American comic book from three distinct and defining perspectives: superheroes and fantasy, crime comics, and the graphic memoir. While the superhero offered an electrifying narrative for comics and ushered its transition from newspaper strips to the […]
