My essay right now is not structured, unclear and needs a lot of tailoring to make it complete. I would like to add structure, and better organizing to deliver my thoughts in this essay. I do not want hard and complicated vocabulary used in my writing. I want it clear and concise.
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Performing formal readings of your filmmaker’s body of work; looking for formal patterns (similarities, variations, oppositions) within the various pieces.
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Making nuanced claims about the role those formal patterns play in generating the work’s significance/meaning (which will likely also involve relating your formal readings to the work’s content).
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Connecting those claims to aesthetic and/or worldly contexts (e.g., artistic movements, or social histories that have affected, or that shed some light on, the work).
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Researching those contexts and employing scholarly texts to help you present them in ways that clarify the significance of the artwork under consideration.
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Weighing the reliability of information and ideas from different sources.
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Engaging with research material in ways that complicate your idea about the artist’s work.
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Learning to develop an idea that makes a claim about the relations among your disparate evidence (artist’s work, contexts, scholarly texts). Your idea must emerge from your inter- pretation of the significance of those relations.