Short Guide to Writing About Art, A (8th Edition) (Short Guide)
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Key Benefit: A Short Guide to Writing About Art, Eighth Edition, the best-selling book of its kind, equips students to analyze pictures (drawings, paintings, photographs), sculptures and architecture, and prepares them with the tools they need to present their ideas in effective writing. Key Topics:This concise yet thorough guide to “seeing and saying” addresses a wealth of fundamental matters, such as distinguishing between description and analysis, writing a comparison, using peer review, documenting sources, and editing the final essay. Market: This book is a perfect complement to any art course where writing is involved
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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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Short Guide to Writing About Art, A (8th Edition) (Short Guide)
Short Guide to Writing About Art, A (8th Edition) (Short Guide),Sylvan Barnet,Prentice Hall,0321292480,Art criticism,Authorship,Composition & Creative Writing - Academic,Composition & Creative Writing - General,General,Language,Language Arts & Disciplines,Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy,Reference / General
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