This whole piece of coursework is all about using the critical anthology to support your views.
So: you need critical quotations.
Top tips for using critical quotations:
- Use them to support your argument
- SHOW HOW they support your argument - never leave a critical quotation hanging
- Once you've shown how it supports your argument, question and point out the critical viewpoint's limitations or weaknesses, to show you can evaluate the sources you use
- Use tentative language to do all of this: 'possibly', 'perhaps', 'arguably', 'could', 'may', 'might'.
Critical quotations should be used to frame and shape your argument. They add another dimension and add weight and authority to your own ideas.
You have lots of critical essays to choose from, as well as the critical anthology.
Do not miss opportunities to demonstrate that your argument has been influenced by your reading and research. e.g. if you're going to write about the gaze, you should briefly reference Laura Mulvey, who coined the phrase in her study, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, 1975.
The same can be said about referring to Freud, who influenced the ideas of the voyeur and scoptophilia.
Do not miss opportunities to demonstrate that your argument has been influenced by your reading and research. e.g. if you're going to write about the gaze, you should briefly reference Laura Mulvey, who coined the phrase in her study, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, 1975.
The same can be said about referring to Freud, who influenced the ideas of the voyeur and scoptophilia.
