Learning Outcome 2
below is a section from my chosen writing project. This quote stood out to me the first time I read it “the values behind arts integration- collaboration, flexible thinking, and disciplined imagination- lead to the capacity for innovation.” now this is a great quote but it was very hard to introduce and to use to actually kind of argue against the author. I say kind of because I agreed with the quote but not for the same reasons. First, when introducing this quote I had to explain the STEM and STEAM to the reader then go into the quote. When analyzing the quote I actually agreed with it but I went on to explain this was not a reason to incorporate art into sciences, only because science already had art in its process. To argue this I provided examples of art in each aspect of STEM and one example was a personal experience. This was much more in-depth compared to my first essay where most quotes I only explain the author’s thoughts and not my own opinions. In class, we had discussed using personal experience to strengthen our arguments. Most importantly we discussed the quote sandwich, which can be seen above: introducing source, introducing the quote, quote, explaining the quote and how it supports your thesis. I can now appropriately apply this format as demonstrated in the paragraph below.
“ Schools around the world stress science much more than arts although art has always been incorporated into the general curriculum. Yo-Yyo Ma is a world-renowned cellist and songwriter, I, in his essay “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education,” he suggest the idea of changing STEM(science, technology, engineering, and math) to STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math). At the moment STEM is the most popular system taught in schools around the world. Yo-yo Ma’s reason to incorporate art into the sciences is as follows “the values behind arts integration- collaboration, flexible thinking, and disciplined imagination- lead to the capacity for innovation.”. This is correct, these are our tools to innovate the world, to further humanity. Yo-yo Ma’s proposes collaboration, flexible thinking, and disciplined imagination are what art brings to STEM. Although, these aspects of art are already present in STEM. Science has used its imagination, collaboration, and creativity to generate experiments, testable experiments that produce discovers. There’s a free-thinking artist behind the scientist that uses their disciplined imagination to create an experiment. Our amazing technological advancement that created the world we see today is due to the collaboration of engineers and artist. If technology, engineering, and art were not already intertwined I’d be writing this essay with a pen and paper. Finally, the math in STEM, but aren’t math and art complete opposites? So I thought, till I took calculus 2. The abstract and flexible thinking involved in solving integrals and graphing them. Along with finding the area/volume of complex abstract shapes requires extremely good visualization, taking drawing my freshmen year most definitely helped my calculus 2 grade. The point being, art has always been incorporated with STEM. Maybe not art for art’s sake but art in some form has always contributed to not just STEM but all sciences incorporated in it.”
