Assessing your understanding of a topic and the methods used to analyse the topic. The chapters and essays we give you or recommend to you are classic peer-reviewed case studies; they combine method and topic and must include external references in your analysis.
Douglas Pye suggests that The Searchers represents a ‘deeply racist and obsessive Western hero’ (Pye 1996: 229) who is also the John Wayne. Discuss the ambiguities in The Searchers’ exploration of racism from a complete analysis of the film and your original thoughts or arguments to the Douglas Pye article attached.
Demonstrate that you understand the major debates in the field you are studying. That means you need to familiarize yourself with the facts (the consensus) and the doubts (the debates within a field). you need to show that you are familiar with the peer-reviewed research in the field you are studying. That means, for example, explaining the differences between a critics interpretation of a topic and interpretations by the many subsequent writers who have written about the same topic through primary and secondary research and referencing.
The length of the essay should be 3000 and 3,300 words including references but excludes the bibliography. Utilise Harvard Style referencingPlease present your own arguments and your ideas, but remember that an unsupported assertion is not an argument. Furthermore, you must engage with the peer-reviewed research, you will find it easier to create an argument of your own. Must write your essay by consulting the vast body of published research on the topic.
