ABSTRACT
Language art uses language to create an aesthetic response. Writing instruction should reflect the type of writing that students will be doing in their real-world professional lives. Most adults are never asked to use language art in their real-world adult lives. However, including language art in a writing curriculum will make class more interesting, will create great motivation to write, and the processes used in creating language art transfer to other types of writing. Art is not necessarily something beautiful, but something beautifully portrayed. Art sometimes portrays things that mere words can’t get to. Art can contribute to: (a) student learning, (b) cognitive dispositions, (c) complex thinking, (d) understanding of self and others, (e) self-actualization, and (f) our humanity. Two forms of language art are described here: comedy monologs and micro fiction.
