Themes! → Skateboarding = Subcultures
Show evidence of research (citations) → Nod at the
people you've hung out witth
Your bibliography is EVERYTHING you've read for the
essay!
Jay Z's left nipple is a cultural text
Think about WHY you picked quotes
Saying things out loud can make you think
Key words [for the essay]: DETAILED, CRITICAL + ANALYSIS
What is it about the text? How it's drawn? How it
represents people?
Think about what you do when you meet somebody new: ASK
QUESTIONS
Focus on something manageable (standing on a pinpoint)
A good question is one you have a hope of answering
A bad question is “what was the artist THINKING?”
We [the university] celebrate subjectivity – mix your
opinion in with everybody else's → Subjectivity is not verbal
diarrhoea
Critical = EARNING your opinion
Stage 1: research your cultural text (1st
round of research: factual stuff) → Don't present FACTS like
they're something new – we're interested in what you put together
Stage 2: primary research: see the text in situ
- At least live with it
- Look at it until you're bored with it!
- Understand how your text lives in the world
Stage 3: reflection – decide WHAT you want to
analyse critically; review past lectures
Stage 4: more research – find out how and why that
WHAT is significant
- Signification = A SIGN
- What's your thing signifying?
- Your reading at this stage may not explicitly mention the topic, just the ideas
Stage 5: WRITING, editing, more research and more
WRITING → [Rachel Miles calls this] The Tumble Dryer
- Allow time to draft, edit and rewrite
- Not PERFECT – just the best essay you can write
POSTER = collecting ideas together → Both words +
images
- A presentation of your preliminary work
- An account of the rationale behind your choice (“because I like it” is not a rationale!)
- An illustration
- 4-6 keywords
- Details of how you will be analysing it and with whose ideas
- Layout and design should reflect the content of the text → What's appropriate?
- Make it readable from 1-2 feet away
Decide on your text FOR SURE by next week!!!
What [text] will YOU get the most out of?
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