Review essay The second assessment item is a review essay, worth 35% of the final mark. For this assessment, you need to select a recent incident reported in the media, and compare and evaluate the gender discourse employed in the reporting of this incident across five different media sources. We will do a worked example of this assignment in Week 4 during the lecture on 21 August. Your essay should be 1500 words long (excluding references).
Your review essay is due before midnight on 7 September 2017. Submit your review essay via LMS in the relevant section below.PROPOSED STRUCTURE FOR ‘REVIEW ESSAY’ (TEXTUAL ANALYSIS)
To be fleshed out and demonstrated by Unit Coordinator in the “Worked Example” lecture 4B (Lecture 8) 22/8/18SUGGESTED OUTLINE   “Bland” overview (one para), including any limits you impose on timeframe etc.  Articles (all text-based) included in hyperlinks as appendix.  Refer to as “Article 1, article 2 etc.”  You may like to contextualise the news source of the article (eg ABC news vs.  The Sun) – discover through text and reading around. o Tabloids vs broadsheets? o Political ideologies?  Can be commentaries as well as ‘straight news’ (you tell us). Difference between fact and narrative could be useful!  Timing of reports may vary (that’s OK … part of your digestion)  Don’t do my example!  References? Only as needed.

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In this article in The Washington Post, the authors can offer information that directly links the suspect as the person that committed the crime. The authors give details on how the suspect was apprehended without incidence and later led the police to the place where he had covered the body. The article shows Cristhian Bahena Rivera to be a calm person and also a person that can cooperate with the authorities during the investigation. There is also the highlighting of the fact that the suspect had not spoken up about the issue during the entire time of investigation until the day he was arrested. The article has made an effort to closely associate…