Composition 3110

Advanced Writing for Students in the Arts and Letters

• To present artists and writers and their works to an audience previously unfamiliar with those works in a manner that is both informative and entertaining.

• To develop a collaborative framework within which individual students can explain their interests in a particular artist or writer in both written and oral formats.

• To learn how to write about art and letters in different formats which will be important to students in their chosen careers in these fields.

• To learn how to work together within a group and bring various individual presentations together into a unified whole.

For the last part of this semester, you will work in groups of students with similar interests. Each group will be responsible for the following:

• Interview and Analysis.
• A collaborative oral presentation on the group's findings.
• A press release announcing an event related to the topic.
• Program notes for the same event.
• A hard-copy report including an introduction to the topic, the analysis of the interview, individual reports on artists, the news release, program notes and a note on procedures explaining how the group members divided the work load.

As the part of the group, each individual will have the following responsibilities:

1. To cooperate with other members of the group and make sure that everyone does her or his fair share of the above assignments.
2. To write a 5-6 page research report on selected works by one artist or writer in the group's chosen medium. (If necessary, it may be possible to divide these tasks up according to some other set of categories.) You will turn this in as part of the group's report.
3. To present a brief oral presentation on the chosen artist's or writer's works along with the rest of the group. Presentation should include some sort of visual aid-a representation of the work or illustrations pertaining to the written work.