IDENTIFY A, B, and C by artist (if known), material, technique, historical period, and dimensions.
DESCRIBE. Use words effectively to characterize each of these water works.
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS. Explain different values of water manifested in these three water works. What skills, materials, and technologies were used to deploy water in these ways? Distinguish what kinds of relationships between humans and water are conveyed by these images.
WHEN? Consider the Japanese art historical periods when the three water works were made. How did this context shape the representation of water?
QUOTATIONS. Include at least one brief quotation from each of the three listed above. All phrases and sentences that you quote must be set in “quotation marks” and attributed in parentheses at the end of the sentence. Your quotations should be short and carefully selected to illuminate the points you want to make. Put the name of the author and page number in parentheses immediately following the quotation. Here is an example:
According to Brock, the scene shown on this box illustrates a Heian period period poem that mentions a “bubbling stream” (Brock, p.102), that serves as a metaphor for the flow of time.
TITLE. Give your paper an interesting title that hints at the meaning behind these water works. Make sure you explain your title in your paper.
CORRECT your mistakes.
Your writing assignment might be returned to you with some of the following editorial symbols. Correct these mistakes yourself before handing your paper in:
awk Awkward sentence construction. Read what you have written to yourself; have you said it the best way?
pl/s or s/pl A plural construction is mismatched with a singular construction, or vice versa.
redundant The same words or ideas are repeated needlessly. If you find that you can delete words without taking away from what needs to be said, do so.
tense Mistake in verbal tense.
What? It is unclear what you are trying to say.
When? Be more precise about when in history this took place.
ww Wrong word. Make sure you choose the word which means what you intend to say.
