Compare Ed Edd and Eddy versus American Dad TV shows
Compare Ed, Edd, and Eddy versus American Dad TV shows. Purpose For this project, we’ll develop your reading annotation skills within the framework of synthesizing topics and ideas. Advancing reading strategies and synthesizing skills is vital prep for your subsequent advanced college courses and beyond. In plainer terms: this project asks you to compare and contrast, and by doing so, craft and mediate a conversation between main topics and ideas gathered from more than one “text.” Specifics After carefully choosing one genre of media text, you will then choose one other to compare and contrast with it in an effective, well-organized manner. Your essay should converse with the main ideas (tropes, themes, structures, etc) from each media text, and then engage those ideas in a conversation with one another (synthesizing). The material you use is up to you, but will be “screened” through me in WR3. This essay should focus on your chosen media texts and how they are told—not on your opinions of the author’s ideas. In other words, this is not an evaluation, but a type of analysis. We will talk extensively about what this means throughout the unit’s class sessions and through examples using essays from the NFG, including different ways to go about organizing. Everyone should consider rhetorical situations. Source Requirements (you will choose two primary sources of your liking) There is no research or secondary sources required for this essay. Due to this, you will want to choose your media texts carefully—they should be rich and ripe for discussion points. Choose from these genres: • Film (must be two different franchises) • TV shows (must choose individual episodes and must be two different TV shows) • Music recordings (individual songs OR albums, these can be from the same artist) • Theatre (plays), or art (sculpture, painting, fashion designers) • Books, short stories, or journalism articles (from the Atlantic, Longreads, AP, NPR, etc) • If you can pitch it to me: video games, podcasts, basically any sort of media material* *BUT these sources should be from published sources available to the public (aka, not your BFF’s Overwatch twitch channel with 20 viewers, their YouTube channel, or their OW fanfiction) Audience: The academic literary community (so, again, no first person) Contains works cited page comprising of TWO media “texts” DOES NOT use the phrase “[these two things] are similar but different” The best topics will typically share a subject & genre. Because they share a subject, they say something about that subject, but they might approach the message differently. And because they share a genre, they typically are going to appeal to the same audience, so you’ll see other similarities. But the outcomes might speak to different messages. In the end, they might philosophically answer the “so what?” question in different, multiple ways (purpose). Make sure that your topic has a text. It can’t just be a free-form idea or philosophy/ideology/issue. It needs something that can be “close-read” for evidence. Be careful to not devolve your topic into summary, and remember that it’s important to think of contrasts Synthesizing between different genres can also work, but just make sure they’re about the same subject. In general, a synthesis is basically: “these things seem like they [do this], but they’re actually [doing this].”
Audience: The academic literary community (so, again, no first person)
DOES NOT use the phrase “[these two things] are similar but different”
Contains works cited page comprising of TWO media “texts”
Answer preview for Compare Ed Edd and Eddy versus American Dad TV shows
Access the full answer containing 1470 words by clicking the below purchase button