Unit 8 Essay Brief

 

2000 words + bibliography

Due 25th April

The more specific, the easier it is to write

 

How to start researching and creating a structure:

1. Experiencing: immersing yourself inn the task

2. Reflection: what did you notice? Researching

3. Conceptualisation: what does it mean?

4. Planning: what would you change?

 

Interpretation of the question > research > planning > writing > cooling off period > editing and revision

 

Orientation: what question you will be asking. Define key terms.

Brainstorming: coming up with ideas for a project relating to specific question

Clustering: ordering the brainstorm ideas, eg. Spider diagram. Then turn this into a smaller cluster using the topic you are most interested in

Analysis: use key concepts that relate to your essay question to read some key artworks. Maybe pick 3 artworks for 3 sections of essay.

Organising: organise 3 artworks into 3 blocks and go into more detail with the these 3 sections.

Researching: tracking down, reading and thinking about the critical literature. Keeping careful notes. Remember to relate what you read to the task and abandon irrelevant sources. Talk about issues and test ideas.

 

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Conclusion

 

Revising checklist:

Clear communication of ideas

Effective organisation of material

Paragraph structure

Strong introduction and conclusion to each section and each salient point

Respond to and integrate feedback

 

Proof reading:

Spelling, grammar and punctuation

Citation format

Word length

Double or 1.5 spacing

 

An argument is: a reasoned attempt to convince the audience to accept a particular point of view about a debatable topic. 

 

Can add a prologue at the beginning possibly about a personal experience

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Unit 8 Tutorials

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Is there a problem with the way children are sometimes portrayed in art or are we taking away their innocence by looking at them in any way other than children?

 

Sally Mann photography series Immediate Family

Argued her work is 'natural through the eyes of a mother, since she has seen her children in every state: happy, sad, playful, sick, bloodied, angry and even naked'

 

Garry Gross photography series of Brooke Shields: The Woman In The Child

Photographs were published in Sugar and Spice, a playboy publication

Brooke Shields unsuccessfully tried to buy back the negatives

 

Book: A Legal and Ethical History of Photography by Daniel Girardin and Christian Pirkert

 

Charles Dodgson photography using children as subjects

'By Victorian standards, however, Dodgson's photos were considered rather conventional. A few of his photographs depict semi-nude children, but Victorians saw childhood as a state of grace and nude photographs of children were considered innocent' Huffington Post

 

Book: The Civil Contract of Photography by Ariella Azoulay

Chapter 3

Chapter 7

 

 

10 sources at least

Look at 3 case studies

 

16/4/19 Tutorial

Expand on quotes in conclusion.