Structuring your essay

Building a bibliography

The basic task is to connect

Concepts and theories

with

Real world examples

The basic task is to connect

Meaning & Myth (Semiotics+History / Memory)

with

Album covers

The basic task is to connect

Values and Ideas (Ideology)

with

A documentary about the Queen

The basic task is to connect

The idea of the maker as author (or not)

with

Alfred Hitchcock

So we can analyse or discuss

The idea of the maker as author (or not)

using

Alfred Hitchcock as an example

To do this we make a wedding-cake of connections

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Real world examples

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You get these from your classnotes and the course website!

Real world examples

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For these we search myUWE

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Real world examples

Ideology thinker
AND

thinker

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Movie poster
E.g. Search: movie poster AND Ideology
Play around with different search terms until you get what you need!

Ideology thinker
AND OR

AND

thinker

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Journal article Movie poster

E.g. Search: movie poster AND Ideology AND (Marx OR Foucault)

This will give you far fewer hits but might help you make good connections.

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Movie poster
E.g. Search: poster
This will probably give you LOADS of hits but will fill out your bibliography.

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For books you can do a library catalogue search, or ask Karl or a librarian!

Real world examples

Search for the things in pink and look in the references of your journal articles.

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Google Books and Amazon sometimes have previews of books too so you can get quotes.

Real world examples

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Using the indexes of books and the references in articles TO FIND THE USEFUL BITS you can make connections

Im not going to use this one in my essay!

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Real world examples So you can start to structure your essay by making connections.

And heres your bibliography! book Journal article book book Journal article

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Obviously you could have more than this but you dont have to use them all in your actual essay.

To make an annotated bibliography book Journal article book book Journal article

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Write down a brief summary from the abstract or introduction.