Sentences with phrase «writing than art»

Since I've gotten paid for writing for the last 20 years, I facing the fact that my day job has been more about writing than art.

Not exact matches

Its undergraduate college puts an emphasis on four areas — arts, sciences, international studies, and writing — and offers more than 70 majors, including astronomy, theater studies, and economics.

I spent the first 13 years of my professional life doing what was more akin to art than to business: commissioning, writing, directing, producing radio, television, films, and music.

I've seen creativity in more than just fibre arts and the written word: I've met creative coders, out of the box business builders, imaginative project managers, doctors with ingenuity, resourceful teachers, pastors with vision for creative community.

From Red: I have always felt that Christian art (particularly music and written fiction) is of a much lower quality than what you find in the «secular» world.

More than common circumstances, however, what drew me and so many other young writers to L'Engle was her articulation of the writing life as a sacred art.

Few critics would seem more qualified to write about contemporary art than Eleanor Heartney, and her latest book, with cover endorsements from Arthur Danto and Andrew Greeley, has the look of an important contribution.

This batch has even better texture than without the cocoa, but I'm guessing (and I say guessing because I truly am not educated in the pastry arts) that might also have something to do with using real sugar rather than Splenda.Okay, I've held out for the 33-1/2 minutes it's taken me to write up this post, so I need to go now.

With a master's degree in art history from the University of Missouri - Columbia, Michelle Powell - Smith has been writing professionally for more than a decade.

Steiner wrote more than 50 books and gave over 6,000 lectures on such diverse subjects as science, philosophy, religion, art, agriculture, medicine, and education.

The reason for this is that children preferred the art of imagination rather than written texts.

Quite apart from the potential loss of income when a parent is home full - time, any textbooks, art supplies, writing materials, musical instruments, and so on must be paid for, rather than supplied by the school.

Robert Buckland MP, with whom I share an office, if for no reason other than I have lots of amusing stories (invariably involving his lateness for everything), and I'm sure he'd be very grateful... I'd probably enjoy writing a book on political campaigning, though the art of canvassing is unlikely to trouble the best sellers» charts.

More than anything, the aim here is to get familiar with grant writing — and start learning the art of preparing a budget that not only wins you the grant, but also allows you to perform the work you promised without major obstacles.

The STEM graduates also reported higher - than - average involvement in the visual arts, acting, dance and creative writing.

A new study reveals that people taking part in a weekly singing class became closer to each other faster than adults taking other courses in art and creative writing.

Singers 1 month in reported being nearly two points closer to their classmates after 2 hours of class, whereas those in art or writing classes were only about half a point closer than they had been at the beginning of class.

So Pearce and her colleagues teamed up with the Workers» Educational Association to follow more than 100 participants in weekly, 2 - hour singing, art, and creative writing classes at community centers in the United Kingdom.

Writing succinctly is an art, and nowhere does it make more of an impact than on a cover letter and resume.

The authors of the report write that the global figure for the use of ART «conservatively represents less than 20 % of the demand for ART treatment being met.»

who wrote «The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance»... A keto adapted athlete can replenish glycogen stores just as fast or even faster than a high carb eating athlete, without consuming any real carbs during extended exercise.

The art of writing a letter is so much more than just putting pen to paper, it's telling someone who they mean enough for you to take the extra step.

What's more, far from being a dying art, 88 % say they've written heartfelt love letters in the past, and Americans are still far more likely to treasure a handwritten letter than a love text.

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Every story is an adventure, and his writing paints a more realistic picture than most art pieces do.

What's more, far from being a dying art, 88 % say they've written heartfelt love letters in the past, and Australians are still far more likely to treasure a handwritten letter than a love text.

Peggy Guggenheim - Art Addict Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, written by Bernadine Colish, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, and John Northrup (USA)-- World Premiere, Documentary Bouncing between Europe and the US as often as she would between lovers, Peggy Guggenheim's life story was as swirling as the design of her uncle's museum, and reads more like fiction than any reality imaginable.

At this point it may be tempting to call Smith's vision «cinematic,» as more than a few professorial types in the past have staked a claim on his lyrics for literature, but this ignores the unbridgeable gaps between aural, written, and moving - image art — and he remained stubbornly a man of rock»n' roll.

From the time we started up I wrote a lot about art films, much more than anybody had ever done in that area.

She studied filmmaking at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and has directed, written, and acted in more than 30 films including Europa Europa, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and 2 Days in Paris.

From the appearance of the credit «written and directed by Brian De Palma» overlaid on the sleek outer casing of an Apple MacBook Pro to a shot of a car driving into and destroying a parking - lot Coca - Cola machine, there's a through line of anticorporate humor that juxtaposes the ideas of «art» and «product» — never more so than in an amazing, extended split - screen scene in which footage of a ballet performance competes for our attention with a knowingly clichéd, Halloween - style slasher - on - the - loose set piece.

It seems hard to believe that it's been more than six months since I wrote this year's introductory Tech Support column (a dissection of the art direction race).

Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help students remember it, especially if the students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a story or creating a drawing, students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.

Seymour wrote more than 45 books, in areas as diverse as community psychology, mental disability, educational change, teacher education, teaching as a performance art, the theory of relativity, and (now in press) life in nursing homes.

Language Arts: Rather than graph the data, students might choose to write a summary report of the survey results.

And it is wonderful that he first tackles the question of the sly marketers and cheap patrons of the poor — as Bauerlein writes, time and again we see the arts used as an instrument of «salvation» for the poor rather than as a discipline that has value to civilization itself.

How could this assignment be adapted (changed) so that we would be learning the same thing, but in a different way (e.g., using listening or speaking skills rather than reading skills, using art skills along with writing skills, giving students a chance to create or perform something, etc.)?

Each school district shall develop and maintain on file a uniform process by which the district determines whether to offer AIS during the 2015 - 2016 school year to students who scored above a scale score specified in subclause (3) of this clause but below level 3 / proficient on a grade 3 - 8 English language arts or mathematics State assessment in 2014 - 2015, and shall no later than November 1, 2015 either post to its website or distribute to parents in writing a description of such process;

The study by the National Center for Education Statistics says that more than 80 percent of elementary and secondary school leaders agree that music, the visual arts, and creative writing are «essential» or «very important» relative to other academic subjects.

Our high school has three business labs (PCs), an English writing lab (PCs), a mathematics lab (PCs), a Mac lab for programming and art, a technology lab (PCs and Macs), and more than 70 computers (Macs and PCs) in the library.

In performance - based art, music, and theatre classes, will more time be spent drilling on concepts so a kid can pass a written test rather than on actually improving one's ability to draw, sing, or perform?

He has written more than two dozen books on learning and the brain, including Brain - Based Learning, Arts with the Brain in Mind, and SuperTeaching.

Because student selection of arts courses in the high school can occur at any grade, the standards and the model cornerstone assessments to support them are written at three levels of proficiency rather than by grade.

«You probably need more than a tenth grade understanding of math and English language arts to be successful in college science courses,» Sample wrote.

It makes the book less effective than if he slimmed it down, updated the art, and wrote in words to address everyone.

Fees for a student in junior high school can easily add up to more than $ 200, including money for academic funds, activity fees, instruction materials, day planners, fine arts classes, an online writing program, science fees, physical education uniforms, play sweatshirts, choir uniforms and yearbooks.

Twelfth grade students who report writing at least four pages a week for their English language arts homework scored higher than their peers.

Consequently, Akili offers students a wide range of performing and fine arts classes, writing workshops, athletic endeavors, and leadership training.Since joining the Crescent City Schools network in 2012, Akili has expanded to serve students in grades PreK - 8 and has more than doubled its student population, from 240 to more than 600.

The late Brian Sewell, renowned art critic and ardent car enthusiast, writes with authority and clarity in his retelling of these seminal events of more than a century ago.

I have a more - than - full - time job, write books and poems, make art, and devote as much time as possible to my family and friends.