21W.730-3 Expository Writing: Autobiography - Theory and Practice, Spring 2001
Focus: What can we believe when we read an autobiography? How do writers recall, select, shape, and present their lives to construct life stories? Readings that ground these questions include selections from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent (pseudonym for Harriet Jacobs...
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| description | Focus: What can we believe when we read an autobiography? How do writers recall, select, shape, and present their lives to construct life stories? Readings that ground these questions include selections from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent (pseudonym for Harriet Jacobs), "A Sketch of the Past" by Virginia Woolf, Notes of A Native Son by James Baldwin, "The Achievement of Desire" by Richard Rodriguez, The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, and "Our Secret" by Susan Griffin. Discussion, papers, and brief oral presentations will focus on the content of the life stories as well as the forms and techniques authors use to shape autobiography. We will identify masks and stances used to achieve various goals, sources and interrelationships of technical and thematic concerns, and "fictions" of autobiographical writing. Assignments will allow students to consider texts in terms of their implicit theories of autobiography, of theories we read, and of students' experiences; assignments also allow some autobiographical writing. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1517582023-08-16T03:39:08Z 21W.730-3 Expository Writing: Autobiography - Theory and Practice, Spring 2001 Expository Writing: Autobiography - Theory and Practice Fox, Elizabeth writing autobiography text composition critical reading voice Exposition narration critique argument persuasion oral presentations prose write revising life stories Autobiography 230501 Creative Writing Focus: What can we believe when we read an autobiography? How do writers recall, select, shape, and present their lives to construct life stories? Readings that ground these questions include selections from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent (pseudonym for Harriet Jacobs), "A Sketch of the Past" by Virginia Woolf, Notes of A Native Son by James Baldwin, "The Achievement of Desire" by Richard Rodriguez, The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, and "Our Secret" by Susan Griffin. Discussion, papers, and brief oral presentations will focus on the content of the life stories as well as the forms and techniques authors use to shape autobiography. We will identify masks and stances used to achieve various goals, sources and interrelationships of technical and thematic concerns, and "fictions" of autobiographical writing. Assignments will allow students to consider texts in terms of their implicit theories of autobiography, of theories we read, and of students' experiences; assignments also allow some autobiographical writing. 2023-08-15T16:33:49Z 2023-08-15T16:33:49Z 2001-06 2023-08-15T16:33:57Z 21W.730-3-Spring2001 21W.730-3 IMSCP-MD5-1583d0eadff340dee6c7cc6a8f25a322 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151758 en-US This site (c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023. Content within individual courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. 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| title | 21W.730-3 Expository Writing: Autobiography - Theory and Practice, Spring 2001 |
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| topic | writing autobiography text composition critical reading voice Exposition narration critique argument persuasion oral presentations prose write revising life stories Autobiography 230501 Creative Writing |
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