Previous Work in the Seminars
- Future Genealogies – Speculative Present – Future
- Strong Opening Line
- APA 6th Referencing
- Clipped Writing
- Descriptive and Creative Writing (One True Sentence)
- Perspectism/ Non-Absolute Perspective (No-one Single Truth)
Dick Hebdige
Subculture: The Meaning of Style is a 1979 book by Dick
Hebdige, focusing on Britain's post-war youth subculture styles as symbolic
forms of resistance. Drawing from Marxist theorists, literary critics, French structuralist’s,
and American sociologists, Hebdige presents a model for analysing youth
subcultures. While Hebdige argues that each subculture undergoes the same
trajectory, he outlines the individual style differences of specific
subcultures, such as Teddy boys, mods, rockers, skinheads, and punks.
Next part of the seminar was to look at previous years essay
examples. What we had to do was to take one page of the seven paged essay, and
we had to analyse the text and pick out: key words, phrases, what should come before
and what should come after. The piece I had is below and you can see the
comments that I had written about this piece of writing.
My Notes from the Seminar
- Reference at the end of a quote.
- Dick Hebdige – Subculture
- THIS ESSAY WILL… TO CONCLUDE… - Do not use!!!! Boring, safe, not interesting.
- Always go back and refer to previous points.
- CLEARLY/OBVIOUS – Do not use!!!!
- Show where the reader can go after the essay. So don’t just end it suddenly, offer some more ideas that they can look into in their own time.