Wednesday 16 December 2015

Tutorial Feedback

Notes & Quotes document just under 2,500 – not including Task #1 (Textual Analysis). With this you’re looking at more like 3,500 which is solid but probably lacking a little in terms of quality academic research. One to address over the next two weeks.

Textual analysis looking like a real strength – just be aware of large blocks of text. Academic writing is being assessed of course in this essay so make sure your points are clear, organised and in sufficient detail.

Bibliography is currently a weakness – obviously a work in progress but that was due today and it’s a long way short of what you need overall. Make this a priority over the next week.

Academic books/journals are massively missing from your research. The BFI will help but I have to ask why you haven’t used the books in DF07 or the archive on our M: drive. On the bookshelf you have Film Genre, Cinema Studies and more which will all cover horror.

Two PDFs on the system to look at – plenty more out there.

Historical text analysis – Exorcist or the Omen could work perfectly for you. More textual analysis please!

Widen your search away from your primary text and look at horror and the representation of children more generally. This will create far more opportunities for academic book and journal research.

I’d keep looking for more internet-based research – more on the Guardian for example. This will be a task in the next couple of weeks so we can pick it up then.

Key priority now is Tasks 2, 3 and 4 – particularly the bibliography but you may need to do a lot of reading to improve that part of it.



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