English 11.67
Writing Exercises: Image Analysis

Topic Sentences

Describe the object in the front of the room from one of four perspectives (whichever your group is assigned):

• Group 1: describe this object from the perspective of an art critic concerned primarily with principles of aesthetic beauty
• Group 2: describe this object using the terminology and concerns of a religious historian
• Group 3: describe this object as if it were an object discovered at an archeology site, its purpose explained by an anthropologist
• Group 4: describe this object in terms of its appeal to a scientist working in a laboratory

USE YOUR IMAGINATION. BE AS CREATIVE AND FAR OUT AS YOU WISH . . .

Paul Marchbanks
marchban@email.unc.edu