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MIT OpenCourseWare
Writing and Reading the Essay
- Instructor
- Dr. Rebecca Blevins Faery
- Term
- Fall 2005
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 11 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
Other versions of this course
- 21W.735 · Fall 2025 · Study here
- 21W.735 · Fall 2005 · Study here (this version)
- 21W.735 · Fall 2004 · Study here
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21W.735 Writing and Reading the Essay, Fall 2005, Dr. Rebecca Blevins Faery — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Assignments
11 files
- Jamie Shin - Return of the Traditionalists?: Elite University Women’s Choice Download
- Karen Kinnaman - Murderous Marriage Download
- Silent Reading Session Download
- Portfolio Guidelines Download
- Irene M. Rahman - Getting Priorities Straight Download
- An MIT student - Bringing Armageddon Download
- Natania Antler - The Heart of a Vampire Download
- Reader’s Notebook Download
- Writing Profile Assignment Download
- This resource is a example of student work which provides information on turning myth into meaning… (campbell_samatha.pdf) Download
- Oral Presentation Guidelines Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: In Depth, Discussion of Bacon, Montaigne, and White Essays
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Lecture 3: Discussion of Fadiman and Gopnik Essays
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Lecture 4: In Depth, Discussion of Didion, Walker, and White Essays
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Lecture 5: Workshop of Essays Submitted on Lec #4
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Lecture 6: In Depth, Discussion of Oates, and Chetkovich Essays
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Lecture 7: Workshop of Essays Submitted on Lec #6
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Lecture 8: In Depth, Discussion of Mairs, Gould, and Orwell Essays
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Lecture 9: Workshop of Essays Submitted on Lec #8
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Lecture 10: Discussion of Diamond, Fadiman, and Pollan Essays
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Lecture 11: In Depth, Discussion of Oates, Wolfe, and White Essays
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Lecture 12: In Depth, Discussion of Dillard, Woolf, Eiseley, and Doyle Essays
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Lecture 13: Workshop of Essays Submitted on Lec #12
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Lecture 14: Discussion of Mori and Koestenbaum Essays
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Lecture 15: Workshop of Essays Submitted on Lec #14
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Lecture 16: Oral Presentations
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Lecture 17: Workshop of Essays Submitted on Lec #16
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Lecture 18: Workshop of Essays Submitted on Lec #17
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Lecture 19: Discussion of Allen and Walker Essays
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Lecture 20: Silent Reading Session
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Lecture 21: Workshop of Essays Submitted on Lec #19
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Lecture 22: Discussion of Orwell, Twain, White, and Woolf Essays
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Lecture 23: Silent Reading Session
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Lecture 24: Course Summary and Evaluations
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Lecture 25: Last Class: Tea and Celebratory Reading
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