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Photograph of pen and writing pad. (Image courtesy of Daniel Bersak.)
Dr. Andrea Walsh
21W.731-1
Spring 2004
Undergraduate
The reading and writing for this course will focus on what it means to construct a sense of self and a life narrative in relation to the larger social world of family and friends, education, media, work, and community. Readings will include nonfiction and fiction works by authors such as Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Andre Dubus, Anne Frank, Tim O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Amy Tan, Tobias Wolff, and Alice Walker. Students will explore the craft of storytelling and the multiple ways in which one can employ the tools of fiction in crafting creative nonfiction and fiction narratives.
Walsh, Andrea. 21W.731-1 Writing and Experience: Exploring Self in Society, Spring 2004. (MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology), http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-731-1-writing-and-experience-exploring-self-in-society-spring-2004 (Accessed). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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