Today, before starting work on our senior papers we discussed a few important things that help us turn our paper into what it really should be. The paper should start off with the literature review that has already been written, followed by our synthesis which will combine the academic area we are researching with how the world of cinema is commenting on it. So, it should be consistently combining your academic and cinematic work. If while working on the synthesis you find something that you feel needs to be included in the literature review you’re free to do so. Although evidence is important for this if you feel like you’re lacking in either subject, be it academic or cinematic, just making sure that they are both integral to the paper, with every paragraph combining both. Another important part of writing, or work in general, is managing of time, both inside or out of class. Mr. Rivers advised us to create a to-do list (also featured as an assignment on Google Classroom) for our work in our next class, so that we use our available time wisely. And unfortunately, it’s likely that we will need to work at home so managing our time best would be beneficial to us.
For my paper I was unsure of how to integrate what I chose for my literature review into a synthesis. Even though I had already picked a film for evidence I felt that I had explored a lot of it as far as the subject, so in order to find more evidence I expanded what I was writing about to be more about themes that could be integrated with it. Along with that I decided to integrate even more evidence, since what I had was only one episode of Black Mirror, so I’ll probably use another one, since the show focuses on technology and my paper is about cyber security, so it works out.
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