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Submitted by Anne Dalke on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 11:54am.

One easy "humanities"-based exercise (sorry I didn't think of doing it when I visited the Institute last Wednesday morning) would be to have your students view and respond to a provocative or ambiguous image--first with words, perhaps then with an image of their own. Then compare: how is their understanding enhanced (or limited) by seeing other perspectives on the image? The point here would not be to get it "right," but to illustrate the variety of interpretations available.

Paul and I use this exercise frequently to kick off our first semester writing workshop; see Getting Started for the most recent run.

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