Choose a work of art that in some way expresses your sensibility, your values, your taste, your style. It doesn’t necessarily have to be your favorite work, or the most important for sentimental reasons. But it should be one that you feel does a good job of communicating something about you, something that you think is important. The work can be of any type, a painting, a photograph, a piece of music, a building, a poem or story. Post it on your blog.
First, describe the work. What details are important to it? What details appeal the most to you? Explain what about the work speaks to you, and how it speaks about you. What themes does the work raise?
Submit the work and your analysis of it by simply uploading them. Your analysis should be thoughtful, thorough, and clearly written in grammatical English.
This assignment should be 300 words, and will be assessed on its formal clarity, the quality of the writing and editing, its degree of engagement with its topic, its creativity/inventiveness/originality of ideas, and the sophistication of thought it expresses.
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeContentAbility to incorporate and synthesize learned material into written responses that are accurate and meaningful, and which reflect student’s grasp on, and ability to think independently about, course content. |
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35 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeGrammar/MechanicsAbility to craft coherent thoughts in standard English, free from errors in diction, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and edited for flow and clarity. |
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35 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeStructureAbility to form a body of ideas on a topic into a coherent whole. Knowledge of how ideas flow together and how transitions connect passages logically to one another. |
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30 pts |
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Total Points: 100 |
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