Beginnings and Endings
Location
CSU
Student's Major
English
Student's College
Arts and Humanities
Mentor's Name
Timothy Midgette
Mentor's Department
English
Mentor's College
Arts and Humanities
Description
Works selected for the creative presentation Beginnings and Endings will undergo a winnowing and refining process based upon criteria used to ascertain excellence in most artistic fields. Those criteria being: 1. Substance: The works selected will show significance - personal and/or universal. 2. Difference: The works selected will present the individual imprint of the author. 3. Completeness: The works selected will be self-contained and represent the whole of an idea, experience, emotion, etc. 4. Knowledge of craft: The works selected will represent the author's mastery of his or her chosen genre, or the author's willingness to master his or her chosen genre. The theme-based nature of this presentation creates one additional criterion: the works selected will pertain solely to the chosen theme of Beginnings and Endings. The aforementioned winnowing and refining process includes weekly workshops wherein the participants will exchange works, then evaluate and critique those works based upon the criteria above. At the end of the one-month workshop period, works of individual authors decreed, by the workshop participants and the faculty mentor, to be the works that best adhere to the criteria above will then undergo further evaluation based upon the same criteria as previous works. The end goal being twofold: to produce high-quality work that showcases the abilities of individual authors and to produce polished, theme-based, and presentable work.
Beginnings and Endings
CSU
Works selected for the creative presentation Beginnings and Endings will undergo a winnowing and refining process based upon criteria used to ascertain excellence in most artistic fields. Those criteria being: 1. Substance: The works selected will show significance - personal and/or universal. 2. Difference: The works selected will present the individual imprint of the author. 3. Completeness: The works selected will be self-contained and represent the whole of an idea, experience, emotion, etc. 4. Knowledge of craft: The works selected will represent the author's mastery of his or her chosen genre, or the author's willingness to master his or her chosen genre. The theme-based nature of this presentation creates one additional criterion: the works selected will pertain solely to the chosen theme of Beginnings and Endings. The aforementioned winnowing and refining process includes weekly workshops wherein the participants will exchange works, then evaluate and critique those works based upon the criteria above. At the end of the one-month workshop period, works of individual authors decreed, by the workshop participants and the faculty mentor, to be the works that best adhere to the criteria above will then undergo further evaluation based upon the same criteria as previous works. The end goal being twofold: to produce high-quality work that showcases the abilities of individual authors and to produce polished, theme-based, and presentable work.
