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SUMMARY:Crafting Impactful Op-Eds: Writing Workshop Hosted by the MIT Communication Lab
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, January 29\, 3:30pm – 5:00pm\nLocation: 56-154 \nRegister for This Workshop \nPlease register only if you can commit to attending. Space is limited. Snacks will be served. \nThis workshop counts toward the requirements for GradEL’s Graduate Certificate in Technical Leadership. \n\nDescription\nFeeling like you need to break out of the ivory tower? Want to learn skills for reaching out to your home town\, state\, or other community to share about problems that matter to you? \nIn this interactive workshop for MIT students and postdocs\, taught by seasoned writer Martha Eddison (Special Assistant & Senior Communications Advisor to President Kornbluth)\, attendees will… \n\nLearn about how op-eds can reach diverse audiences\, start conversations\, and spur action\nIdentify strategies for writing impactful op-eds\, such as composing a compelling lede\, crafting a story\, and choosing effective evidence (including personal experience)\nBrainstorm your own op-ed topics and practice drafting key elements\n\nSponsored by the MIT Communication Lab. \n\nLeader\nMartha Eddison has served since 2007 as the principal writer and a strategic communications advisor to three successive presidents of MIT – Susan Hockfield\, Rafael Reif and now Sally Kornbluth. She began her speechwriting career in politics\, heading the speech office of the late New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo. Later\, while raising three young children\, she spent nine years as a freelance writer\, bringing wit\, rigor\, clarity and delight to fundraising and admissions materials for clients that included Brown\, Harvard Medical School\, MIT\, Tufts\, Williams and Yale. On behalf of the leaders she served\, she has developed op-eds that were published by the Boston Globe\, the Financial Times\, the New York Times\, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. \n\nThursday\, January 29\, 3:30pm – 5:00pm\nLocation: 56-154 \nRegister for This Workshop \nPlease register only if you can commit to attending. Space is limited. Snacks will be served. \nThis workshop counts toward the requirements for GradEL’s Graduate Certificate in Technical Leadership. \nAdd this workshop to your calendar using the “Add to Calendar” link below. (That does not register you for the workshop. Use the above link to register.)
URL:http://gradel.mit.edu/event/crafting-impactful-op-eds-writing-workshop/
LOCATION:Room 56-154\, 21 Ames St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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