Teaching Academic Skills at NAFA

Here is the outline of the performing arts portion of the Aesthetics of Arts Module. I've revised the writing part to include time set aside to help students narrow down the areas within the topics they can present and write on. Techniques like question generation will be used. The grading rubric for writing has been tweaked to reflect greater emphasis on organization.

Appreciate feedback!

This resource is intended to help students develop skills to improve their writing in Art and Design. I like how this site highlights "reading AS research" and "observing FOR research". There's also a lot of useful tips on how to do observation/formal analysis/writing reports/etc. The best part is it encourages the keeping of a visual journal - a cool way to mark observation as a tool for discovery in research in art and design. Most part are short and sweet or in point form and comes with diagrams and images.

This is the course outline for Level 1 Project for Y1 Performaing Arts students of AME.

Health warning - this does NOT comply with NAFA's style guide, but I haven't had time to change the slide show in such a major way. The first three slides show students where they might find information needed for bibliographical entries. The following few slides show the conventions of the various types of paper and online publication. And the last few show how items in a bibliography should be arranged.

Hi, here's my Outlining a Research Paper assignment. I colour coded the sections of the paper outline and included examples but have yet to complete.

This is a modification of the article on the same topic. The first slide shows how the various paragraph relate to one another. The main difference in my version is that I don't think that every paragraph needs a conclusion. Rather, there should be a link sentence to relate it to the next paragraph and more distantly the concluding paragraph. The next slides show two alternative ways in which supporting sentences can relate to the topic sentence.

In case anyone has difficulty reading the previous attachment, which might be in keynote format. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4aBwabJtBvPOGZzMnJQeUZBTUk/edit

After reading about the importance of outlines, I've decided that outlines should be required for any writing above say 2500 words. They should also be marked. The attached rubric is marking outlines. It should have a weighting of 15% of the overall marks.

This handout/worksheet was created to teach paraphrasing. With key.

This handout/worksheet was created to teach referencing, using NAFA Style.

This was designed to teach summarising. With key.

Answers to the worksheet on quoting.

This handout/worksheet was created to teach quoting. The answers are in a separate doc.

This is to be used with the referencing handout/worksheet.

This handout goes with the paraphrasing worksheet.

This site is based on a text written for the art history undergraduates of City College of New York. It contains useful tips that focuses on visual description, stylistic/iconographic/historical analysis, etc. There's also step by step guide on writing and research processes. What I like best is the sample student papers where, paragraphs by paragraphs, the author gives detailed comments, recommendations, and revisions. 

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