To do this, everyone needs to complete the following tasks:
- Review the assignment guidelines for Concept Application 3 and answer the following questions This Portion is due Wednesday!!
- What will you be evaluating and why?
- What is the angle you are taking with the analysis and why?
- Who is the intended audience for the review (describe them) and why?
To do this, each student needs to develop a 3-4 page review. This will be a more formal essay that includes minimal research. This essay will be included in the final portfolio for the class. To help guide students, review chapter 7, where the excerpt below is from, and the example reviews included in the chapter specifically.
Write a review of a specific film, book, TV series, podcast, play, or video game that you think contributes something significant to the genre and to the culture at large. Show how the subject—the primary source—of your review illustrates something compelling or exceptional about a particular idea or theme common to the genre. For example, the CW series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015–2019) is a romantic comedy that eschews and even satirizes traditional romantic comedy tropes such as the “grand gesture,” doing something out of love for someone. Use specific evidence from your primary source to support a central idea, or thesis. In an essay of about 1,200 to 1,500 words, provide an overall judgment about your subject and support it with evidence from the primary source and from secondary sources if applicable. In addition, explore how your specific source has contributed something significant to its genre. In other words, why is this subject interesting, different, or worthy of analysis? Be sure to demonstrate awareness of your source’s cultural and historical context as well. For example, if your review is about a romantic comedy, provide relevant information about the history, conventions, or expectations of that genre. Think about and explain the ways your topic adheres to or breaks from audience expectations.
To complete the assignment, students need to submit their review and it must include all of the elements listed below:
- Introduction paragraph (review p. 221 in the textbook for more information)
- 3 supporting paragraphs (review p. 222 in the textbook for more information)
- Conclusion paragraph (review p. 222 in the textbook for more information)
- There needs to be at least one specific example, one quotation, and one secondary source embedded effectively within the paper (review p. 225 in the textbook for more information)