Overview
NOTE: that you are not simply summarizing the film. (1200 words )
"Christmas Carol movie"
Must follow:
- Offer a brief sketch (summary/overview) of the movie, including note of topic, major scenes, and underlying themes.
- Specify the primary focus of the movie and how it is addressed. Think about this as the question the movie is trying to answer, problem to be solved, issue to be clarified.
- Identify at least three key terms or concepts related to the study of religion, Christian themes in the movie, note their meaning, and explain how the movie uses them to develop the story.
- Specify the movie’s most important points and explain why they are important.
- Explain what the movie is saying about Christian subjects.
Formatting:
1) Introduction:
Must introduce the paper itself and its agenda, not just the general topic of the paper.
Tell the reader WHAT the paper is about, WHY the paper is important, and HOW the paper is organized and
structured.
2) Body:
The heart of the paper. It contains date and analysis necessary to reach a conclusion that is meaningful
in terms of the concerns of the paper. Which have been presented in the introduction.
- Each section looks back to the introduction, the HOW of the paper, and forward to the conclusion.
- Aim to drive home a point about each concept analyzed or those that have been compared or contrasted.
- Each section of the body has its own conclusion followed by a relevant transition into the next section.
2) Conclusion:
- Is not a summary of the paper. It functions to drive home the point of the paper:
- To answer the questions(s), clarify the issue(s), solve the problem(s) presented in the introduction
- The conclusion should be clearly related to the Introduction of the paper. As well as the important findings
presented in the body of the paper and explain how these findings answer the WHY question presented in the
introduction.
- The answer is direct and emphatic using findings in the body of the paper while not simply repeating the
findings. Do NOT SUMMARIZE in your conclusions.