Instructor's Notes
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After completing one of the writing assignments presented in this chapter or supplied by your instructor, turn back to the After Writing questions in Chapter 3 and respond to as many of them as you can. While addressing these questions, it might be helpful to revisit your response to the Learning by Doing activity Reflecting on Images, if you completed it.
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Next, reflect in writing about how you might apply the insights that you drew from this assignment to another situation—in or outside of college—in which you have to respond to visual representations. If no specific situations come to mind, imagine that
in an art history course, you decide to write about how emotions are portrayed in the paintings of the Early Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510).
you are an executive at a hotel chain that’s preparing a new print advertisement for its beachside properties. The draft of the ad shows the exterior of one of these hotels, and there’s no suggestion that the hotel is right on the ocean or that it is a vacation destination. You plan to write a memo that points out the problems with the draft ad and suggests better choices for images, use of color, typography, and so on.