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Part of being good at what you do is being able to explain what it is that you do. In this free six day experimental intensive for MIT graduate students, you will learn and workshop six skills useful to ensure your research connects with a range of audiences:

Language

Choosing appropriate language to avoid overwhelming your audience,

Narrative

Using narrative to explain why your research is important,

Prior Work

Synthesizing prior work to convey where yours fits in by highlighting differences,

Controlling Focus

Controlling focus in order to minimize cognitive load when presenting data,

Timing

Building in time for an audience to process when explaining how something works, and

Summarizing

Distilling your message when time and attention spans are short.

 

Course Instructor

Tony Eng

Tony Eng

Lead Course Instructor
Senior Lecturer
MIT EECS
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Features

Comics

The source material for this intensive will be a comic book series written expressly for Gradcommx Live.

Video Case Studies

A six episode series of videos featuring MIT graduate students in the form of documentary & animation will be used to highlight key learnings.

Designed Around Your Schedule

Gradcommx Live was designed to be additive to your normal student schedule. The course is comprised of 6 meetings over a 2 week timeframe (attendance to all six meetings is required).

Small Class Size

Gradcommx Live workshops are limited to 15-20 students at any given time so that instructors can give you the personalized feedback necessary to advance within your communication skills. For that reason, if you miss the first session, your spot will be given to someone on the waitlist.

Free

Gradcommx Live was designed to be useful to the entirety of the MIT graduate student population by the Office of Graduate Education.

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