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English 1102: Writing About Popular Media
Spring 2018: S. Rose
Textual Analysis
For this essay, you will be building on the skills you learned from the last essay and in this course so far. Since you have already responded to a reading in a critical manner in class and in our discussions, this essay will closely read and critique a text using more than your own opinion. You will seek outside support for your position/argument.
Close reading describes, in textual analysis, the careful, sustained interpretation of a text. Such a reading places great emphasis on the particular over the general, paying close attention to the details of an essay and how they play a greater role in the global scheme.
For your essay, you will want to use AT LEAST one form of popular secondary research for support You want to make assertions about the text, based on the elements we’ve discussed throughout the semester. You also want to consult OTHER SOURCES about the existing conversation. By including these other sources, you can be sure not to alienate your audience, which is again, very general and could include folks who disagree with your point-of-view. In essence, we will be researching and incorporating credible sources, narrowing details and organizing logically. You will need to include at least ONE PRIMARY and ONCE SECONDARY source in your essay.
Objectives and goals:
- Generate research skills: clearly state your critique of the work while synthesizing it with your own
- Continue to focus: what details should you include and what should you leave out? How can you make sure your critique is persuasive without alienating your audience?
- Use CONCRETE AND SPECIFIC examples and quotes to support your position and cite those to avoid plagiarism.
- Focus on revision skills: look at your paper with a critical eye and make it better.
Paper Length: no more than THREE full pages,
Source Requirement: TWO: one primary, at least one secondary. The secondary source MUST be from a credible and vetted source.
Paper Due Dates:
Group Workshop March 27, 2018 in class
Peer Review – March 29, 2018 online
Final Draft – April, 1, 2018
| Media depictions of body image |
Gender Relations in popular media |
| Appropriation of African-American culture by middle class America | Depictions of the military in popular media |
| Portrayals of the events of September 11 in television, movies or video games |
The depictions of undocumented people in popular media |
| Represenation of homelessness in popular media | Personifications of death in television and movies |
| Religion in popular media |
Varying depictions of family in popular media |
| Sexuality in popular media |
The Amish in reality television programming |
| Monsters and ghouls in the mainstream |
Images of Satan and devil figures in popular media |
| Globalization of American as portrayed in popular media |
The influence of digital downloading on music sales |
| Instagram’s role in shaping personal identity |
K-Pop’s influence on contemporary pop music |
| Class warfare and representations of poverty in popular media |
Stereotypes in popular media |
| The effect of reality TV in contemporary culture |
Superheros in the 21st century |
| Videogame/movie crossovers | The influence of historical events on the television and movies |