The Humanistic Tradition Volume 2: The Early Modern World to the Present

1. Be sure and use an outline form – an outline will help you not to exclude the Description, When, Where, Important Person, or Page in the textbook…

Now in outline form:

1. Description – A. Physical description call a painting “oil on canvas” or “acrylic” or “watercolor”  a sculpture should include material like marble or terracotta clay  Literary works could be collections of poetry / short stories, novels, histories,  or plays, comedies, dramas, etc…   you do not need the when / where / or important person in your descriptions… 🙂

2. When – be as specific as possible a month/day/year is best yet not always practical…

3. Where –  should also be as specific as possible you should refer to a Spanish religious figure as such not from Europe or Southern Europe???

4. Important person – NEVER make the term and the important person the same!!! (so many students try this) the important person may well be the author or painter if the term is a work of literature or art… If the term is a person then a colleague rival sibling parent contemporary critic etc…

5. Page number – is self-evident… again just be as specific as possible…

If you still have questions/ doubts about terms and definitions just send me an example of your work … email or text.. 🙂

PLEASE get started on these as soon as you get your textbooks and quite often you must use the internet to find all the information (except the page number)… 🙂  You can use the internet to help you keep on schedule and find information for entries the textbook may not contain… 🙂