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Formal Paper Topic Ideas

The Formal Paper is your opportunity to write about a subject that is dear to you. It should be a

subject that you would like to l earn more about.

Here are just a few ideas for a Formal Paper topic:

The Art of (name your favorite artist)

Illuminated Manuscripts

Dutch Genre Painting (Vermeer, etc.)

Michelangelo and his Paintings

Sculpture i n the Renaissance

Northern Renaissance Art

The Art of Giotto

Women Artists i n the 16th and 17th Centuries

The Influence of Classical art and Architecture i n Early America

Art as Illustration i n the Early 20th Century

19th Century (OR twentieth, or both) European Children’s Book Illustrations

The Impressionists

Woman Impressionists

The History of Tromp L’oeil Painting

Japanese Woodblock Prints

Norman Rockwell and His America

Art i n the American West (Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church, etc.)

The Gothic Revival

The WPA Art and Artists During the Depression

The Arts and Crafts Movement i n Europe and America

Evolution/Overview of Animation Art

Disney and His Contribution to Art

The Hudson River School Artists

Winslow Homer and the Civil War

Art of the Battlefield

Cubism

Surrealism

Contemporary Art

Native American Artists

African American Artists

Conceptual Art

Formal Paper Requirements & Grading

Rubric

Paper requirements – /15 pts.

1. Do you follow the correct format including font (Times New Roman) and f ont size (12)

and margin size (1 inch top and sides) and Double-spaced?

2. Does your paper include a cover page AND i s your last name and course # i n header of

each page?

3. Is the word count i n your paper at l east 1,200 words?

Sentence formatting – /15 pts.

1. Are you pages numbered?

2. Did you provide a summary/outline and bibliography as requested throughout the class

session?

3. Did you include a complete bibliography and labeled i mages in the back of your paper.

Sentence mechanics – /15 pts.

1. Is your paper free of careless typographical errors?

2. Is your paper free of spelling errors?

3. Is your paper free of grammatical errors?

Thesis – /50 pts.

1. Have you framed a significant and interesting issue for your topic?

2. Do you clearly state i n your introduction your thesis, and capture the reader’s attention?

3. Do your return to your thesis i n the conclusion of your Formal Paper?

Quality or your argument, or analysis of the artist’s work – /40 pts.

1. Are the elements of your argument/analysis clear and logical?

2. Do you provide 8 to 15 good i mages i n the Appendix of your Formal Paper (not inside

the paper itself), with cites and captions correctly included.

3. Are the works of art included i n your paper introduced and used i n such a way that i s

understandable to an “outside” reader?

Quality of writing – /15 pts.

1. Are your ideas clearly expressed and well organized?

2. Have you written smooth transitions from one topic to another?

3. Is your Formal Paper engaging, and holds the reader’s attention?

Formal Topic Bibliography Guidelines

Formal Paper Bibliography Guidelines

Basically, your Bibliography should be listed at the end of your Formal Paper AND have

at least three items listed as the source you use to research your paper. they should be

published sources, and not just someone’s blog on the internet. One of them needs to

be a published book.

Here are some examples of Formatting. These are made using the Chicago Manual of

Style. You are welcome to use MLA, but please be consistent with one style. The Pima

library system offers assistance in formatting.

Here is another helpful site: h ttps://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/05/

Sources should be arranged in Alphabetical order according to the author’s last name.

In your paper you must also cite your information. REMEMBER, you need to cite ideas

also, not just direct quotes.

Here are various ways to format your sources:

Article

(Article about collecting Norman Rockwell’s work):

Stewart, James B., “Norman Rockwell’s Art, Once Sniffed At, Is Becoming Prized.” N ew York

Times (May 24, 2014): B1

Online Article

(Article about collection of Artists i n 1800s America, i ncluding Thomas Cole):

Mead, Rebecca. “Alice’s Wonderland.” T he New Yorker ( June 27, 2011),

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/06/27/alice… .

(Article about collecting Maxfield Parrish’s work):

Ng, David, “George Lucas wants to build an Art Museum i n San Francisco.” L os Angeles Times

(March 6, 2013),

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/06/entertainm…

305 .

Book

Decter, Jacqueline. N icholas Roerich: The Life and Art of a Russian Master. (Great Britain:

1989).

Roerich, Nicholas. M essenger of Beauty: The Life and Letters of Nicholas Roerich. (Agni Yoga

Society. Kindle format).

Barrow, R. J. L awrence Alma-Tadema. ( New York: Phaidon Press, 2001).

________. T he Classical Tradition. ( West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2001).