Master’s
seminar: text commentaries
As I
mentioned, every student will do a text commentary on a document or speech.
This will be invaluable practice for the exam, which will include a short text
to comment (as will the other exam on the other seminar). We will be going over
again how to do a text commentary in British civilization, which is firstly not easy and secondly quite
different from in literature.
Remember to
revise this page
and this one
and this
one
For the
method of the text commentary. The main
pitfalls are always 1) paraphrasing the document instead of analysing it and 2) explaining
the history of the period without
referring in any detail to what the person who produced the document is trying
to do.
Your
commentary should last fifteen minutes.
Here are the dates and documents for each student:
24 November
“The Wind
of Change,” Chloé G.
“Rivers of
Blood,” Inès N.
Summary of
Macpherson report, Marion C.
1 December
“Chicken
Tikka Masala,” Geoffrey D.
“A Golden
Thread,” Pierre P.
“State multiculturalism
has failed,” Arielle F.
8 December
“Doreen
Lawrence’s gain is Black Britain’s loss,” Laura D.
“Stand up
to UKIP,” Mohamed Anis H.
Extract
from TUC Black workers conference, David S.
15 December
Lucie V.
Lucile C
(You will
each be provided with documents in a couple of week’s time)
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