MIT Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies

21W.732 - Introduction to Technical Writing

General Information

Welcome to Professor Andrea McKenzie's section of 21W.732.

This goal of this page is to make students' work from past and present terms available. The purpose of the page is two-fold. First of all, current students can use pieces from previous terms as models for their current assignments. Secondly, the page allows students to take pride in exceptional work they completed for the class through sharing the work with their families and friends.

Completed samples of the following assignments are available in Portable Document Format (PDF):

Also, you can find the course syllabus for the current term here (PDF).


Set of Instructions

The first assignment is to compose a set of instructions and test them for usability.

Sample Instructions:


Analyzing Articles

The second assignment is to compare and analyze two forms of communications in your discipline (one must be an article).

Sample Analyzations:


Writing Articles

The third assignment is to compose an article for a print or online magazine.

Sample Articles:


Team Projects

The fourth assignment is to work in a group to propose, research, and recommend a solution to a problem.

Sample Projects:


Résumés

The fifth assignment is to write a résumé and job application cover letter.

No Sample Résumés are available at this time


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