The second assignment is designed to demonstrate your ability to understand and summarise a piece of academic reading. Your summary of the text should provide an overview of the topic under discussion, and demonstrate your understanding of some of the key ideas and arguments raised and discussed in your piece of reading. Any quotations should be properly referenced according to the style sheet provided on WebLearn.
Your summary should include the following:
An overview of the article or chapters topic and argument
An explanation of the key ideas and arguments raised
Reference to some of the illustrative examples used
Discussion and explanation of how key points relate to the overall discussion and argument
Appropriately used quotations from the article or chapter
Appropriate references and bibliography
Please choose ONE of the following pieces of reading as the subject of your summar:
Sheldon Hall, Blockbusters in the 1970s in Linda Ruth Williams and Michael Hammond (eds.), Contemporary American Cinema (Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2006), pp. 164-183. (not including grey boxed sections)
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