And you need to spank your husband for sluffing off.

They no longer want Rhetorical spouting off at the mouth from you showing what you have absorbed from the learning.

They now want you to JUSTIFY a presentation without have to resort to Rhetoric.

It’s all about doing a scholarly work.

Example:

As to women working as professioinal animators in the major animation studioes Maltin (1989) cited two women Jane Doe and Jill Smith and Smith (1992) went further to describe Jane Doe as working at Waner Brothers with Chuck Jones. When contacted Chuck Jones advised me he had no recollection of working with her. Checking over the film archives of Warner titles could be found I determined that Jane Doe did, indeed, work as a credit animation but it was under Director Bill McKimson, not Jones as Smith (1992) had credited.

I would then elborate on these citation at the end of the paper.

What I showed was how I researched the information, my source of the information and my looking into the matter by going to the source specified who told me (true story, by the way) that he didn’t recall working with them (names were made up, I forget the names and don’t have my research papers handy).

I’m breaking new ground by showing that credible historical writings on the subject are accurate to a degree, but one was grossly inaccurate.

I also found out from researching and ACTUALLY TALKING to women filmmakers that EVERY historical reference work on women filmmakers got the history of one woman totally wrong and she begged me to get it changed.

So every researcher to date has based their work on the inaccurate works of others.

But you see, you have to document this.

In one thesis I read entitled “Dorothy Arzner Femminist Filmmaker or Woman Doing A Man’s Work”

The Masters candidate had to define femminism and she didn’t use her own rhetorical presentations.

She had to go and research Femminist Manifestos and give the definition of Femminist based on the writings of Femminists and Experts on Femminism.

Any fool can define Femminism, but it don’t hold weight with the Department staffers

They want factual presentations from authoritative sources, documented.

They want to see how many stones you turned over to make a presentation on what is a Femmist Filmmaker.

Then she had to view as many Arzner films as she could find and write a synopsis.

Then she had to document what others thought of and said about those films.

Then, based on being armed with all this background material and Expert Authoritative information and first hand digging, she finally got to present her findings.

Arzner was a Woman doing a Man’s work.

That got her an MFA in Cinema History.

It was something like 75 pages long, double spaced, single sided 1″ margins, fully annotated with Bibliography.

That thesis is a part of the schools library collection and serves as a reference work for other researches who now know what books they can look at for what information on Femminism, Arzner, etc.

This is what graduate school training is about. It’s about impressing the staff with how you go about doing your work.

NOW

I moved to the next question and it was about this intro:

Renaissance ideas are evident in the art of the period. Michelangelo’s David was obviously inspired by individualism; the stately statue is a symbol of human strength and beauty. Its accurate representation of the human form emphasizes the importance of the individual. The School of Athens, a fresco by Raphael, depicts classical scholars gathered together. Raphael’s tribute reflects the general respect for humanism, the study of liberal arts and classics in the hope of a rebirth of ancient values. Both individualism and humanism, which define the Renaissance, are expressed in 14th century art.

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Very nice Rhetoric, but how do I know it’s the truth and that this person knows what he’s talking about.

Both individualism and humanism, which define the Renaissance, are expressed in 14th century art.

Says who!

Him!

There are NO citations from experts, historians or peers in the later Renessance movement to back up this “wild” statements.

This is GREAT for High School.

But College is not High School.

Sure maybe this guy read enough to know something, but he’s not telling us who he read and what he read and how he came to these colorful words…