Question Description

Possible Topics for the First Paper (5 pages)

1. Select an individual–an artist, scientist, musician, writer, or other creative figure – and discuss his or her creative process. You should use primary materials, interviews, and secondary works to support your ideas. What factors contributed to their creative success? Can you identify any particular social or personal elements that may have been important?

2. Following the same format as above, select an artistic movement or group of individuals known for a distinctive style or type of creative work. This could also be an academic discipline. Describe the creative process as it applies to this group, discipline, or artistic movement.

3. Pick a historical period–Ancient Greece, Qing China,Modernism, the Renaissance-­?and describe the creative forces at work in that period. What factors helped to shape the creative production during that particular period?

4. Identify and discuss the latest research on creativity. What are the most recent ideas concerning the development and nature of crea tivity, and what are the implications of these findings?

A Few Things to Check on Your Paper

•Make sure your introduction clearly lays out what you will be arguing.

•Indent your paragraphs.

•Avoid the use of personal pronouns in your essay.

•Be sure to use transitional sentences to get from one paragraph to the next.

•Check for run-on sentences that need to be broken up into smaller units.

•Break up long blocks of text into smaller paragraphs.

•Remember to cite your sources as you use them throughout your paper.

•Place any footnotes you have at the end of the sentence.

•Number your pages.

•Make a point of proofreading through your paper when you are done to catch any errors you may have accidentally overlooked.

•Remove any spaces between your paragraphs

•5 pages means 5 pages

For footnote formatting, please visit the following website:

http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/svolk/citation.htm

 
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