critical analysis

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critical analysis

1 – Watch the following documentary:

The Great Global Warming Swindle (2007, Martin Durkin)
Available from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Mx0_8YEtg

2 – Write a short critical commentary of the video above. The commentary should

•    be no longer than 500 words
•    be written in your own words
•    contain a few direct quotes (use Harvard referencing style for in-text references)

3 – Your commentary should essentially answer these two questions:

•    What point is the speaker trying to make?
•    How is the speaker making this point?

Note that your commentary MUST NOT be simply a description of the basic information in the documentary. Your work must also be critical. That is, you must not only

summarise the argument and points in the documentary but also evaluate them in light of evidence.

For example, if you can identify any ways in which the argument or discussion in the documentary is logically inconsistent or not fully convincing, you should say so.

If you choose to do this, do NOT simply state that you do not ‘like’ the documentary or that you do not agree with it. You need to assess, instead, whether the

documentary might be challenged or strengthened by information or arguments contained in another source (any news article, documentary, or book on the same topic that

you might find). If you provide quotes from other sources, you must give a bibliographic reference in Harvard style.

Sources you can use to challenge or support the documentary’s argument:

Press Association (2014) ‘Greenhouse gas emissions rise at fastest rate for 30 years’, The Guardian [online]. Available at:

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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/09/carbon-dioxide-emissions-greenhouse-gases [Accessed: 27 October 2014].
De Freitas, C. (2007) ‘Don’t blame me for the heat’, The New Zealand Herald [online]. Available at: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?

c_id=466&objectid=10478445 [Accessed: 27 October 2014].

Sources on how to do critical analysis:

University of Reading (2014) Critical analysis  [online]. Avalaible at: https://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/studyadvice/StudyResources/Essays/sta-

developessay.aspx#critical [Accessed: 27 October 2014].
Lejeune, E. (2014) Critical Analysis [online]. Available at http://www2.southeastern.edu/Academics/Faculty/elejeune/critique.htm [Accessed: 27 October 2014].

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