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Prospectus for essay #1 (Due Weds. 3/22):
This will be a 1-page paper proposal outlining your topic/film, thesis, the main points you anticipate making in support of your thesis, and two potential research references, both of which must be from outside of the syllabus and not from the internet. Ungraded, but mandatory. Failing to turn one in will effect your participation grade.
Essay #1 (6-8 pages, Peer Review Mon. 4/3; Due Weds. 4/5):
The paper must be 6-8 pages long. (As always, it should have a title, your name, and page numbers, and it should be stapled.) This paper will require you to reflect critically on one of the films we've watched to date, offering a coherent thesis in relationship to the interpretation of the work. Formulation of this argument should be dependent upon the formal components or elements of the work, including a close-reading of the rhetorical relationship between the narrative and the filmic structure, which will also entail contextualizing the relationship between form and content.
I will be evaluating your ability to formulate a clear thesis, to argue in favor of this thesis, to identify and analyze the work's
formal elements, and to synthesize and apply the vocabulary we've established through our readings and discussions. Your thesis should make a concise statement about what the work signifies and the way in which it does so.
As noted above, your paper must cite at least two references, in addition to our assigned readings.
This will be a 1-page paper proposal outlining your topic/film, thesis, the main points you anticipate making in support of your thesis, and two potential research references, both of which must be from outside of the syllabus and not from the internet. Ungraded, but mandatory. Failing to turn one in will effect your participation grade.
Essay #1 (6-8 pages, Peer Review Mon. 4/3; Due Weds. 4/5):
The paper must be 6-8 pages long. (As always, it should have a title, your name, and page numbers, and it should be stapled.) This paper will require you to reflect critically on one of the films we've watched to date, offering a coherent thesis in relationship to the interpretation of the work. Formulation of this argument should be dependent upon the formal components or elements of the work, including a close-reading of the rhetorical relationship between the narrative and the filmic structure, which will also entail contextualizing the relationship between form and content.
I will be evaluating your ability to formulate a clear thesis, to argue in favor of this thesis, to identify and analyze the work's
formal elements, and to synthesize and apply the vocabulary we've established through our readings and discussions. Your thesis should make a concise statement about what the work signifies and the way in which it does so.
As noted above, your paper must cite at least two references, in addition to our assigned readings.
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