Prompt Advice
- Prompt is asking: “Can the effectiveness of the ‘aesthetic experience’ of art (including visual art, music, architecture, theater, cinema, etc.) be quantified?”
- Aesthetic experience = being moved to a different emotional state than you were before viewing the artwork
- Quantified = measured/tested
- NOT asking if the methods used to create the art can be quantified - we already know they can (i.e. color theory, music theory, etc.)
- Define what the aesthetic experience is
- Discuss what the purpose of quantification is and what sort of quantification measures you would or would not utilize
- Use all the information and don’t selectively omit information to further your argument
- Use the active voice in academic writing
- ”I argue…"
- "Ledoux and Pine claim that…"
- "This evidence shows…”
- Include evidence from the course readings and lectures
- Remember that the evidence you find may not be overtly “obvious”
- Cite your evidence
- Be as specific as possible in your descriptions
- NOT OUTSIDE RESEARCH IN CAT 2