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...well even before Expos tend to gain confidence in their ability to write at the college level. Expos teaches students a methodology and lexicon that they can apply broadly to writing assignments. These techniques, outlined in the Harvard Writing Center’s “Strategies for Essay Writing?? hand-outs, can be used to dissect essay prompts, analyze texts, develop a thesis, and construct an argument...
...concentrate on improving their writing. Instead, easily accessible, general subjects allow students to develop a variety of ideas and learn how to write about them most effectively. Such principles of good writing are then transferable across fields, within which one can increase the level of the subject and the writing??s technicality...
...soul wears out the breast,/ And the heart must pause to breathe,/ And Love itself have rest.” (Or, as glossed by a roommate, “Oh my God, I’m never drinking again.”) If you substitute “thesis-writing?? for “a-roving,” the stanzas provide a nice synopsis of my post-thesis state. Love of Byron itself must have rest...
...Harvard, since writing is a solitary art form. There are no late nights at the studio or all day rehearsals, and this can make writing at Harvard seem especially daunting. However, through the Advocate and creative writing workshops, I have met people with whom I can talk about writing??and we also engage in each other’s writing processes. One of the best things I did this summer was a “workshop” with a friend on her back porch, in which we read each other’s stories and gave...
...Take the chandelier, for example. It may seem nonsensical at first, but think about it: a chandelier blinking poetry in Morse code speaks about language, translation and the poignancy of obsolete technology. Likewise, the recording of slide-rule engravings presents us with the ghostly sound of forty year old writing??paradoxically highlighting language’s status as both a visual and sonic medium and questioning its extension through time. And the radio console is half celebratory monument and half nostalgic relic—both a commemoration of the leading role MIT radio played in exploring revolutionary music...