Week 11

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Week 1

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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)  as painted by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) Welcome to The Art Institute ,   and to your first writing class here at the school. This class is designed for practice and instruction in writing short essay compositions. In it, you will discover some of the ways in which writing can help you to develop your creative capacities and understand better your knowledge and experience of the world. Writing is a process that will reveal to you what you know, and what you don't.  The simple act of putting words on paper (and screen!) will quicken the spring of remembered people, places, events, and ideas that you carry inside. What is more, writing will reinforce your sense of what you can contribute to the lives of others, for all of us are seeking greater knowledge and understanding of the very large and often complicated world we live in, and all of us are in need of the perspective and experience contact with others can giv...
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Week 4

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Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. –Helen Keller Good morning.   How are you? The familiar question, asked so often for courtesy's sake, may be just the thing for an exploratory freewrite.    What words would you use to describe how you've felt this past week?  What challenges, fears, delights or joys?  What details of person, place, activity?  What large or general ideas can you draw from the specifics of your focus?  With such questions in mind might you begin writing your next essay, a narrative, to convey some of the drama of life as you see it.     T oday   we  pick up where we left off last week and that was with directions to write a piece in descriptive mode.  I'm curious about the subject you chose, and how you thought to bring the concrete, physical aspects of your...
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