User talk:KatrinaD

Hello Former Student!

I'm writing to you because you took a class from me in the past few years at the Art Institute. As of Spring, 2010, I'll not be teaching further classes at AIS for the foreseeable future. (We're parting ways on good terms!) Until now, you've been able to reach my Wikiversity educational resources from my website, but I've decided to delete that link. You can still reach all of those materials here.

If you're interested in what I'm up to in the future (which will include an album in 2010 and a novel in 2011) you can friend my facebook page or drop me an email at info@stevenarntson.info and you'll receive a periodic update about performances, classes, and publications.

If you know any current or former students of mine who might be interested in any of this, please forward this information if you have a moment.

I hope all is well for you. Best! Stevenarntson

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Personal Essay
This is an excellently drawn scene--your descriptive writing is really quite good. It's one of the easiest-to-read essays I've encountered so far today in that it pulls me in with a nicely-paced narrative and interesting details.

Right now I'm left a little unsure what the topic is, or what the essay is trying to accomplish--there are potential ideas in it, but they haven't yet grown to fullness. The most productive one, perhaps, is the one you end with--that students have changed in the intervening years between your last school experience and your present one.

In revising, go back through and weave that thread more strongly into the narrative, so it suffuses the whole thing, and work out a good conclusion for the end that wraps up what's been built.

Great start! Stevenarntson