Threshold Concept #1: Connections between Looking and Writing The statement: It is not easy to write what you see. If seeing establishes our place in the world, art history is a tool to make sense of ...

They write their histories to avoid "presentism," and they value "contextualism." Bailyn's intellectual heroes, that is, do their best to shun the biases of the contemporary world and put their ...

Real writing grows from studying the work of other writers. We study sentences, passages, essays, and articles to understand how they work, as we create our own. 3.

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Does writing make us human? The title, How Writing Made Us Human, is inspired by the role that learning to read and write played in the emancipation of enslaved people in 19th-century north America.