Assignment #5 for the Departments of English & Media Studies by Prof Dr Sohail Ansari Assignment :
(a) Students need to juxtapose primary texts and secondary text from
a text or a narrative that is a representation of a
particular situation or process by one author.
(b) Students need to encounter any text for unpacking
Textual
Analysis and Media Research
Jason Bainbridge
Evidence can be broken down into two forms: primary evidence and secondary evidence, as all of our evidence can be found in two types of texts; we can refer to these texts as being either primary texts or secondary texts.
Jason Bainbridge
Evidence can be broken down into two forms: primary evidence and secondary evidence, as all of our evidence can be found in two types of texts; we can refer to these texts as being either primary texts or secondary texts.
Types of texts
Primary
texts
Primary texts comprise the original information that you
begin with: the primary object of study. If you were analyzing an episode of a sitcom, or a magazine, or a particular film, you would call this text the primary text.
Depending upon your research question, you could look at
more than one primary text; for example, you could be writing a historical overview of the Walt Disney Corporation, so your primary texts would include the Disney films, Disney television series and Disney-linked products.
For a constitutional lawyer, the Constitution will be the primary text; for an investigative journalist writing an exposé of potentially criminal business dealings, the primary texts could include business documents and interviews with the people involved; for a surgeon, the body itself becomes the primary text.
Primary texts comprise the original information that you
begin with: the primary object of study. If you were analyzing an episode of a sitcom, or a magazine, or a particular film, you would call this text the primary text.
Depending upon your research question, you could look at
more than one primary text; for example, you could be writing a historical overview of the Walt Disney Corporation, so your primary texts would include the Disney films, Disney television series and Disney-linked products.
For a constitutional lawyer, the Constitution will be the primary text; for an investigative journalist writing an exposé of potentially criminal business dealings, the primary texts could include business documents and interviews with the people involved; for a surgeon, the body itself becomes the primary text.
Secondary
texts
Secondary texts are the texts that make an analytical or descriptive study of the primary text or texts. They help us to understand the primary text, or otherwise clarify our analysis of the primary texts.
For academics and students, secondary texts are usually reference works taken from the body of academic literature around a subject. They could include textbooks or academic articles, lectures and seminars. For journalists, these could include other articles on the subject or interviews. For people working in public relations, they could include analyses of audience surveys or statistics.
Secondary texts are the texts that make an analytical or descriptive study of the primary text or texts. They help us to understand the primary text, or otherwise clarify our analysis of the primary texts.
For academics and students, secondary texts are usually reference works taken from the body of academic literature around a subject. They could include textbooks or academic articles, lectures and seminars. For journalists, these could include other articles on the subject or interviews. For people working in public relations, they could include analyses of audience surveys or statistics.
Tools
for all types of texts
Some tools are applicable to all types of texts, regardless of whether they are image or written texts.
Some tools are applicable to all types of texts, regardless of whether they are image or written texts.
Encountering
the text
Take notes about where and how you encounter the text for the first time.
Make notes about why a text produces certain responses or encourages audiences to react in certain ways.
Take notes about where and how you encounter the text for the first time.
Make notes about why a text produces certain responses or encourages audiences to react in certain ways.
Make
a guess at how meaning is made; this will remain a ‘guess’ (or hypothesis), but
through analysis you will unpack how this meaning is made, ‘educating’ your
guess by continuing examination of the primary material.
Primary text: the original information
that forms the
basis of the textual analysis.
basis of the textual analysis.
Secondary text: analytical or descriptive
studies that
use as evidence the original information you are studying.
As you build up both primary and secondary evidence, you may be quite surprised by how correct your ‘gut instincts’ or ‘first impressions’ were. They should be, because you’ve been unconsciously training yourself to analyse texts every day, as you live in a multimediated world.
use as evidence the original information you are studying.
As you build up both primary and secondary evidence, you may be quite surprised by how correct your ‘gut instincts’ or ‘first impressions’ were. They should be, because you’ve been unconsciously training yourself to analyse texts every day, as you live in a multimediated world.
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