A Short Guide to Writing About Art (6th Edition)

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"A Short Guide to Writing about Art offers invaluable advice for any art course where students write papers."--BOOK JACKET. "Among the new features of the sixth edition are new guidelines for using the World Wide Web and the Internet for art-historical research, five new checklists (e.g., a checklist for evaluating Web Sites), ten new illustrations, and the style guide published by The Art Bulletin. Several sample essays are also included, accompanied by analyses that show readers the particular strengths of effective writing."--BOOK JACKET.

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* description versus analysis * som critical approaches to art (e.g., formal analysis, cultural materialism, gender studies) * getting ideas for an essay * engaging in peer review * developing paragraphs * organizing a comparison * using bibliographic tools, including the Internet * quoting sources * writing captions for illustrations * avoiding sexist and Eurocentric language * editing the final draft * documenting sources, using either The Chicago Manual of Style or The Art Bulletin style * preparing for essay examinations Among the new features of the sixth edition are new guidelines for using the World Wide Web and the Internet for art-historical research, five new checklist (e.g., a checklist for evaluating Web Sites), ten new illustrations, and the style guide published by The Art Bulleting. Several sample essays are also included, accompanied by analyses that show readers the particular strengths of effective writing.


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description versus analysissome critical approaches to art (e.g., formal analysis, cultural materialism, gender studies)getting ideas for an essayengaging in peer reviewdeveloping paragraphsorganizing a comparisonusing bibliographic tools, including the Internetquoting sourceswriting captions for illustrationsavoiding sexist and Eurocentric languageediting the final draftdocumenting sources, using either The Chicago Manual of Style or The Art Bulletin stylepreparing for essay examinations Among the new features of the sixth edition are new guidelines for using the World Wide Web and the Internet for art-historical research, five new checklist (e.g., a checklist for evaluating Web Sites), ten new illustrations, and the style guide published by The Art Bulleting. Several sample essays are also included, accompanied by analyses that show readers the particular strengths of effective writing.


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