Instructions for Response Papers.

From time to time throughout the semester I will be assigning short response papers, basically a one-page response to one of the assigned texts.

What I will be looking for in these papers is:
1. evidence that you read the text: a brief summary of what the text is about, with some attention to who wrote it and why.
2. evidence that you thought about the text in relation to the art we are looking at in class that week. Your own response to the reading is important; it's why I'm calling this kind of assignment a response paper.
3. good writing.

Within these parameters, you can go in any direction you want with these papers. If the text makes you think about the nature of Asian religions or the politics of a specific period or contemporary Asian society, please write about it. I am hoping that these papers will stimulate your thinking about different uses of narrative in Asia and that this will deepen your understanding of Asian art.

Please refer to the notes in your syllabus about appropriate formats for written work and about plagiarism. (Yes, plagiarism even matters here: if you quote from the text in your paper, please use a parenthetical reference.)

If you have further questions about writing response papers, you might visit the HWS Writes website.

Assignments.

TBA.