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21W.826 Advanced Science Writing Seminar II
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Graduate (Spring)
Prereq: 21W.825 or permission of instructor
Units: 3-0-9
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Topics include research for writers, science journalism, and essays; literary science writing, and the social and historical context of science and technology. Includes seminars, lectures, and student writing workshops. Special emphasis on the science essay and on literary and imaginative science writing that employs traditionally fictive devices in nonfiction, including scene-setting and storytelling. Assignments cover science essays, writing on particular disciplines, and investigative and critical science journalism.
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