weekly writing assignment (weeks 1-8)

Writing a Weekly Review or Response

Each of the first eight weeks of the term you are to write a review of an exhibition you’ve seen in person, or, respond to a lecture (a minimum of six reviews are to be written and turned in--which means you may write up to two lecture responses).

Your ability to critically analyze work outside your own practice is integral to developing a reflexive, critical, and independent assessment of your own work in and beyond the classroom.

From week to week, I may give you writing prompts, limitations, or additional options on how to fulfill this requirement, but by default your reviews/responses each week should be:

·       -a minimum of 700 words

·       -employ a formal (in lieu of diaristic) tone–please use 3^rd person

·      - pre-edited (grammar checked, spell checked, human checked (utilized your classmates for this last requirement))

·      - evidentiary/substantive (you must explain with support each point you make)

·      - micro/macro (consider the exhibition alone, then consider the exhibition in context of the global art environment in 2013)

·      - utilize one quote from either the artist, curator, or a contemporary/historical thinker

·      - published to the class blog at 9am the following week

We will be reading Criticizing Photographs by Terry Barrett in order to provide a foundation for this weekly activity (I think the word ‘photographs’ in the title can also be understood as any kind of contemporary art with little imagination). 

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SAIC’s Writing Center

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) offers free, hour-long writing tutorials at the Writing Center. Tutors are available to assist all currently enrolled students with any stage of the writing process. We strongly encourage students taking part in the Academic Access Program to take advantage of the Writing Center’s services.

Come in for assistance with:                                                                  

·       Beginning the writing process

·       Improving writing style

·       Clarifying language

·       Improving English writing fluency

·       Addressing American Psychological Association (APA) and Modern Language Association (MLA) style questions

·       Citing references

·       Correcting basic grammar and punctuation

When you come to your tutoring appointment, please make sure to bring your assignment with you and have all your work printed out.

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