This document provides 5 sentence stems to help integrate theorists, theories, or critical quotations into essays. The sentence stems suggest ways to apply a theorist's theory or notion to help understand a music video by using the theorist's model, concept, theory, language, or potential arguments. Picking two of the sentence stems and writing them out fully about a music video could help analyze or discuss the video through a theoretical lens.

1. A few sentence stems you could use to help
integrate a theorists/ theory/ critical quotation
in to an essay
Mr Seal’s Well Good ‘You can’t eat your cake until you’ve done this’
sentence challenge fun theory game
Pick two sentences below and apply them to your work. Write out the whole
sentence or the cake will choke you.
1. [theorist’s name]’s theory of [describe theory] can be useful in understanding
my music video in that…
2. [theorist’s name]’s notion of [describe theory] provides a useful framework for
understanding the way in which my video…
3. To use [theorist name’s] model/ concept/ theory of [genre/ audience/
narrative], our video can be understood as…/ can be seen to…
4. To employ the language of [theorist’s name], my video can be considered as…
5. [theorist’s name] might argue that my music video…