Essay - Representation And Power - Essay Writing Assignment Help

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Essay Writing Assignment Help

TASK Write a essay in response to the following question: What is the relationship between representation and power? Your essay will address the question by developing a critical argument about the case-study: Student protest at the University of California, Davis, 2010. Your response should: • Define key terms relevant to your case • Make a clear and critical argument with appropriate evidence from your chosen case and relevant academic sources • Cite at least three different academic sources When you write your essay, you can assume that your intended reader (ie your marker) is already familiar with the case. Their social world. 2. Relevant theoretical concept/s from the course: - Representation is a social process - Texts & signs - Encoding/Decoding - Hegemony - Professional communicators - The industrialization of media 3. An argument about representation: An argument is a proposition or series of statements reasoned with evidence. An argument has three parts: • Makes a claim: You are writing an essay that makes an argument about how people use media to represent the world. • Explain why the claim matters • Defends the claim with evidence and reasoning: Develop the argument by engaging with the recommended text and reading list. The text and readings relate each case to theoretical ideas and scholarly arguments. An academic argument consists of illustrative evidence structured theoretical reasoning: o Illustrative evidence: the discussion of real world events and relationships § Choose an option § Choose key elements/aspects of that case § Choose particular cultural texts you will use to illustrate these elements/aspects of the case § Work out why it matters (in relation to our focus in this part of the course: the media & society, representation, and power) o Theoretical reasoning: conceptual tools that you use to think and reason with: Theories are conceptual tools for constructing logical explanations of social reality. There are two elements to using theory: § Identifying, describing, and applying a particular concept in your argument § Situating your argument in relation to scholarly debate that engages with that concept