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We have finished the course Design for Animation, Narrative Structures & Film Language this week.

The most impressive part of this course is describing the boundary between film and animation (documentary animation, experimental animation), the research of film narrative, and developing critical thinking in writing reports.

Next, we need to continue studying critical reporting on our topic.

The following is the mind map and structure of my paper:

We have learned about referencing and referencing by the Harvard referencing method.

It also presents the structure of a critical report.

Here is the structure of my report：

Title

Abstract

Key words

Contents page

Page 4.  –   Introduction

Page 4.  –   Chapter 1

Page 5.  –   Chapter 2

Page 6.  – Chapter 3

Page 6.  – Chapter 4

Page 7. –  Conclusion

Page 8. –  Reference List

Reference list

In this lesson, I learned how to write the introduction and conclusion sections of the report as well as the literature review. 

Course notes: 

• To complete all academic writing, three essential components must be achieved. 
• Whether it’s a report, a journal article, an essay, or a thesis, these are all critical elements of successful communication with your readers. 
• Regarding the research and its reason, have a clear understanding. 
• what kind of information, data, and learning offers study and find information conclusion reiterated that the target and contact the results. 
• The introduction and conclusion may play opposite roles, but they join to create a “book frame” or “sandwich” for all the writing frames. 
• The introduction should define the research topic, inform the reader of the purpose and motivation of the study, and guide or directions to conduct the investigation, and tell the reader the results. 
• The conclusion section reconnects the reader to the topic objectives, evaluates learning, summarizes information for the reader, and considers any crucial contributions to established knowledge or the foundation for further research. 

And I have read some papers this week. The following is the abstract of some articles on my research topic. 

Some ideas of magic realism:

Source:

The history of the term magical realism started from 1798 to this day; from Germany to Latin America, and then continues spreading up to the rest of the world, internationally (Bowers, 2005:7).

Definition:

In his book Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel: Between Faith and Irreverence, Christopher Warnes tries to draw a basic yet simple definition of magical realism. He defines magical realism as a mode of narration in which a real and fantastic, natural and supernatural, are coherently represented in a state of equivalence (Warnes, 2009:3).

Characteristics:

“To do so,” Bowers writes, “takes the magic of recognizable material reality and places it into the little understood world of the imagination. The ordinariness of magical realism’s magic relies on its accepted and unquestioned position in tangible and material reality.” (Bowers, 2005:7).

As Chanady explains, this narrative point of view relies upon an ‘absence of obvious judgements about the veracity of the events and the authenticity of the world view expressed by characters in the text’ (1985:30).

In this lesson, I learned how to write the introduction and conclusion sections of the report as well as the literature review. 

Course notes: 

• To complete all academic writing, three essential components must be achieved. 
• Whether it’s a report, a journal article, an essay, or a thesis, these are all critical elements of successful communication with your readers. 
• Regarding the research and its reason, have a clear understanding. 
• what kind of information, data, and learning offers study and find information conclusion reiterated that the target and contact the results. 
• The introduction and conclusion may play opposite roles, but they join to create a “book frame” or “sandwich” for all the writing frames. 
• The introduction should define the research topic, inform the reader of the purpose and motivation of the study, and guide or directions to conduct the investigation, and tell the reader the results. 
• The conclusion section reconnects the reader to the topic objectives, evaluates learning, summarizes information for the reader, and considers any crucial contributions to established knowledge or the foundation for further research. 

And I have read some papers this week. The following is the abstract of some articles on my research topic. 

Some ideas of magic realism: (my topic)

Source:

The history of the term magical realism started from 1798 to this day; from Germany to Latin America, and then continues spreading up to the rest of the world, internationally (Bowers, 2005:7).

Definition:

In his book Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel: Between Faith and Irreverence, Christopher Warnes tries to draw a basic yet simple definition of magical realism. He defines magical realism as a mode of narration in which a real and fantastic, natural and supernatural, are coherently represented in a state of equivalence (Warnes, 2009:3).

Characteristics:

“To do so,” Bowers writes, “takes the magic of recognizable material reality and places it into the little understood world of the imagination. The ordinariness of magical realism’s magic relies on its accepted and unquestioned position in tangible and material reality.” (Bowers, 2005:7).

As Chanady explains, this narrative point of view relies upon an ‘absence of obvious judgements about the veracity of the events and the authenticity of the world view expressed by characters in the text’ (1985:30).