Create a progression of questions you could ask to help your students transform their ideas about a closely read text into a more
formal piece of writing.
Handy set of sheets to help aid students with making notes on images and then structuring them into
a formal piece of writing to use with their coursework or exam projects.
Not exact matches
A Civil Eats
piece written by Steve Holt last fall documents the ever - increasing number
of college courses and
formal degree programs focusing on the food system, a phenomenon which Holt says is «happening everywhere — from the coasts to small college towns and everywhere in between.»
We use the term deliberately and in place
of the more common term «expository»
writing because to us it encompasses a wider array
of texts, many
of which are growing in relevance and importance with the rise
of electronic media: interviews, speeches, opinion
pieces (including op - eds and columns but also blog posts and less
formal writing), letters, and primary historical documents, for example.
If I assess a
piece of formal writing and a student receives 2s and 3s out
of 4, they can return to their essay and revise it using the rubric as a guide.
Looking at the compositions
of these paintings, their gestural lines, kinetic compositions and
formal repetition almost appear to be
writing: perhaps quick notes dashed off on a
piece of scrap paper or a notation system for something that isn ́t self - evident.
In an interesting comment on the earlier
piece, Benjamin Weil,
writing in Flash Art (January 1995), said: «In the work
of South African artists, one finds strong
formal ties to Western art produced over the last thirty years.
Like the video, the two - dimensional
pieces originate in the artist's clever
writing and their
formal presence is a satisfying combination
of the off - handed and highly considered.
«I'm not suggesting brokers provide coffee, Wi - Fi or a
formal space for
writing up contracts,» for outside agents, he
wrote a few months ago in a
piece advocating the open - door policy in Realtor magazine, a National Association
of Realtors trade journal.