Learn how to type at ACAD
Iffn ya’ll got an ol’d manual typewriter hangin’ about, here’s a worthy project to retire it to!
ACAD Liberal Studies Instructor Derek Beaulieu is planning to teach his students how to type.
Starting in January, every student in Beaulieu’s Creative Writing course will be required to create all of their notes, their assignments and their final projects on portable manual typewriters.
Students will be required to write in class, in coffee houses and on public transit in order to make traditional poetry and prose, but also to use the typewriters to create portraits and music — all in order to explore the artistic possibilities of these sadly neglected machines.
In order to bring these ideas to his students, Beaulieu is seeking the donation of 35 portable, manual typewriters in working condition.
“Typewriters epitomize the romance of being a writer. Every typewriter harkens back to a golden age: the clack of the keys, the ding of the carriage, the rachetting of the roller. This is an opportunity for students…
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