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Angles: MIT’s best Introductory Writing work featured in new issue

Cynthia TaftCynthia Taft, Karen BoikoKaren Boiko, Lucy MarxLucy Marx
April 27, 2015
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Read a sample of what our students have been writing, in Angles, a public outlet for their remarkable introductory writing work.

All of the works published in Angles since its first edition in 2008 were written by students in the introductory writing courses at MIT. These courses, designated as CI-HW (Communications-Intensive Humanities Writing) subjects, bring together students who love to write, students who struggle with writing, students who thrive in seminar-style classes, and students who just want a chance to develop their English skills. These students prosper together and produce some remarkable work. Angles has provided them with a public outlet for that work. It also provides the CI-HW instructors with material that inspires and guides their current students.

Read a sample of what our students have been writing…

“Transition”
Faaya Fulas retraces the doubts and hopes that led her to leave medical school in Ethiopia and to pursue her dream of a career in engineering.

“Our Guts, Our Bodies, Ourselves”
Dalia Walzer conducts an inquiry into some surprising features of our inner life.

“Reunion”
David Christoff recalls the heroic fantasies of a young sports fan, fantasies bound up in the Reunion Arena, demolished by the city of Dallas in 2009.

“Curtain Call”
Sebasthian Santiago tells us how he came to MIT looking for freedom.

Read the full issue: cmsw.mit.edu/angles/2014

Cynthia Taft
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Cynthia Taft

Cynthia Taft holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. She has taught at Williams College and Harvard University in American Studies and in Expository Writing. She has been a lecturer at MIT since 1998, focusing in recent years on science writing and new media.

Karen Boiko
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Karen Boiko

Karen Boiko teaches introductory and advanced non-fiction writing classes and also works with various classes in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication program. Classes taught, currently and recently, include Food for Thought and Writing about Sports and Culture (Writing and Rhetoric), Intro to Science Writing for the Public, and Writing about Nature and Environmental Issues.

B.A. English, Santa Clara University; M.A. Theatre Arts, Cal State Long Beach; Ph.D. English & American Lit (Victorian Studies), NYU

Lucy Marx
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Lucy Marx

Among the courses Lucy Marx has taught at MIT are “Reading and Writing Autobiography”; “MIT: Inside, Live”; and “Writing in the Age of Spin”—which she last taught a few years ago but now seems increasingly worth teaching. She holds a B.A. in English from Harvard College and an M.A. in Creative Writing from Boston University. You can find some of her writing, including excerpts from her recently finished novel, Speak, Wood; Stone Whisper, at speakwoodstonewhisper.com.

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