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Writing and Reading the Essay

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21W.735
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2025English
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As the course title suggests, this class is meant to acquaint you with the literary and rhetorical tradition of the essay, a genre which has been described by one scholar as “the meeting ground between art and philosophy,” and by another as “the place where the self finds a pattern in the world, and the world finds a pattern in the self”.

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