Wednesday, July 13, 2011

What I learned from my first summary attempt

After a few attempts of writing a summary for the Christo Valley Curtain documentary, I finally figured out a few important concepts. The first of which was to rid my writing of analytical adjectives. This was a hard concept for me to grasp, as I removed the flare and glamour of my paper I realized that the paper was left with the facts and the facts only. The second major change that I had to make in my summary was the chronological order of the paper. My first attempt at the summary was a complete failure of this concept; I had rearranged the order into a chronological order of how it happened in real life, which was drastically different from how it happened in the film. I learned that the chronological order of the summary was for the documentary film only.

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