The writing assignment asks you to write a two-page “Response Essay” (about 500

The writing assignment asks you to write a two-page “Response Essay” (about 500 words) that offers up your “response” to the three articlesthat I provided. You can also read the 3 examples that I provided.
you shouldn’t rely wholly on these examples, but you’ll note that each combines a bit of summary of what was read along with commentary and personal observations
one way to approach these writing assignments is to think, “what do I know now that I didn’t know before?” or “as I was reading through _______, I was struck by how it made me think of _______ …” – feel free to write these in first person (“I thought this …” or “I didn’t understand that … “); in fact, first person responses are encouraged!
as a rule of thumb, it’s always a good idea to include the article’s author and title somewhere in an introductory paragraph, then refer to the essay by the author’s last name; try to avoid saying things like “the article said …” and instead write “Drexler noted in his essay on the École des Beaux-Arts that …”
when using parenthetical citations like the above two examples, be sure to include a reference list of all your sources, properly formatted, at the end of your paper; consult the Turabian Quick Guide for proper citation formatting. In the above examples, the properly formatted source would be:
Huppert, Ann C. “Envisioning New St. Peter’s: Perspectival Drawings and the Process of Design.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 68, no. 2 (June 2009): 158-77.
if you use footnotes or endnotes (which in fact are the standard for writing in the discipline of art history), consult the Turabian Quick Guide for proper source formatting
if you use direct quotes from one or more of the readings, be sure to use quotation marks and cite it using footnotes (or parenthetically in the text); for example:
example 1: “With the theoretical writings of Alberti and Raphael as their starting point, modern scholars have tended to analyze Renaissance representational techniques in oppositional and polarized terms” (Huppert 2009, 173).
example 2: According to Huppert, “modern scholars have tended to analyze Renaissance representational techniques in oppositional and polarized terms” (173).
note that the close quotation mark ends the direct quote, followed by the citation in parentheses (name date, page#), followed by the sentence punctuation: rule of thumb — punctuation always goes at the end!