Formatting the Assignment

1. Formatting the
Assignment
by Louise Douse
Week
11
Analysing
Performance

2. What?
Date Topic
25/04/22 Formatting | Tutorials
02/05/22 Bank Holiday Monday | Tutorials
09/05/22 Tutorials | Assessment Due: 13/05/22 @10am
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3. Formatting Guidelines
 Title page – you do not need to repeat any information from this in your
essay except the title at the beginning. Do not put your name on your
essay – anywhere!
 Do not use colloquialisms and slang
 Do not use lists and headings
 Don’t use abbreviations
 Do not use personal pronouns, ‘I’, ‘we’, ‘you’
 Do not use ‘and’ ‘but’ ‘yet’ at beginning of sentences
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4. Formatting Guidelines
 Write numbers in full e.g. one hundred (except dates: 1984)
 Always use someone’s surname
 The first time you mention someone write their full name and dob/d:
(1912-2001) (b. 1952)
 Quote and reference
 Indent long quotes (over 40 words)
 When writing about a performance work always write the title in italics.
 Give the date a performance was recorded/seen (if live) the first time you
mention it
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5. Bibliography
 Cite them write
 Alphabetical order
 Grammar is important
 Layout/presentation is important
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6. Re-cap
What? Essay
How long? 2,000 words including
quotations
When for? Friday 13 May, 10.00am
How important? 100% of the total
assessment of the unit
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7. Essay Title
In what ways can your chosen practitioners work be
considered postmodern. You should discuss the
chosen work by paying particular attention to:
 The significant signs and key stylistic features of
the work
 The key postmodern themes and/or
characteristics
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8. Assessment Practitioners
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Dance and
Professional
Practice Texts
Matthew Bourne – The Car Man
Gecko – The Wedding
La La La Human Steps - Amelie
Compagnie Heddy Maalem – Le Sacre Du Printemps
Acting Texts
Joel Paley and Marvin Laird – Ruthless! The Musical
Royal Shakespeare Company – The Merry Wives of
Windsor
Mole Wetherall – Negative Space
Dominique Morisseau - Pipeline

9. Threshold Criteria
 Demonstrate a sufficient subject knowledge of key postmodern
characteristics within performance.
 Apply key methods of analysis to a performance text and express ideas in
your own words.
 Communicate ideas using an awareness of the conventions of grammar,
spelling and formatting, with a sense of structure. Have an awareness of
good academic practice.
 Undertake independent research in relation to the Postmodern
practitioners and practices presented in the lectures.
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10. What should your essay include?
 Introduction
 Discussion of key methods of analysis
 Postmodernism
 Semiotics
 4 strands analysis
 Contextual info on the practitioner/work
 Intention: What are they intentions of the practitioner?
 Interpretation: What are the key postmodern themes of the work?
 Analysis (1): What are the key signs and stylistic features of the work?
 Analysis (2): How do the signs support the theme(s)?
 Conclusion
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11. Your
argument
[Insert name of work here]
can be considered
postmodern.
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12. Possible
structure
1. Introduction (200)
2. Method (200)
3. Practitioner info/ outline of work (200)
4. Intention (200)
5. Interpretation (200)
6. Analysis (200)
7. Intention (200)
8. Interpretation (200)
9. Analysis (200)
10. Conclusion (200)
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Argument 1
Argument 2

13. Possible
structure
1. Introduction (200)
2. Method (200)
3. Practitioner info/ outline of work (200)
4. Intention (400)
5. Interpretation (200)
6. Analysis (200)
7. Interpretation (200)
8. Analysis (200)
9. Conclusion (200)
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Argument 1
Argument 2