25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going Analysis

There were many impactful moments over the course of WRT 205. Many of the readings were provocative and made me think and the skills I acquired i this class are skills I will take with me for the rest of my college and beyond. However, there was one class that impacted me the most: the class we learned about the summary heuristic. While I had been asked to think analytically about different texts, and even different forms of art, in other classes, I was never given a framework to do so. The Summary Heuristic provided me with this framework and while some of the categories were areas I already tended to think about, like background and genre, there were many categories that provoked me to think about things that I would not have though about,
After some time working with the Summary Heuristic and instruction by excellent professor Anne, I was able to form stronger analysis of audience incorporating both the piece itself and the publication. The following is my audience analysis for Terry Castle's article about Vivian Maier. While this analysis is the same length as my analysis on the NYT magazine article, it is significantly stronger. I analyze Harpers magazine, the reader demographic and topics they cover, and then how the article pertains to that. Thinking about audience in this more complex way allows me to read and write at a more sophisticated level. This was specifically helpful when I wrote my arts review. Part of the assignment was picking a publication that would post said review. This was a two step process, first I had to think about the types of publication that would review the show Girls and once I selected Vulture, I had to match their
I want to produce a guide about an arts controversy that was meaningful to me. A topic that I felt needed explaining. Then in writing my guide, I was inspired by the need to make the reader care about the issue as much as I did, no matter what side they agreed with. Banned Books felt like the perfect topic to me because its something I’m passionate about and something that does not get a lot of recognition or discussion. My guide had exigence because nothing like it really exists right now and I was able to make the readers feel it was important because it is so important to