Write a Rough Draft of your Movie Review. Make the decision about the length of your rough draft and how many sources you are going to use based on the Final Draft requirements below.

Movie Review Final Draft Requirements: Write a 750-1,000-words long review of a movie.

Length 750-1000 (min)

Sources min of 2 professional movie reviews are cited and min 1 source is used for background info about the movie

Formatting font, margins, heading, header, spacing, indentation and paragraphs; plus in-text citations and Works Cited page

Movie Review Final Draft Requirements: Write a 750-1,000-words long review of a movie that

Length 750-1000 (min)

Sources min of 2 professional movie reviews are cited and min 1 source is used for background info about the movie

Formatting font, margins, heading, header, spacing, indentation and paragraphs; plus in-text citations and Works Cited page

Rough Draft Guide

Heading

Title

Introduction. Your introduction carries 4 major tasks:

1.It has to attract your readers attention your first sentence

2.It has to inform them about the topic of your paper and explain your interest in this topic – who you are and why you chose this topic?

3.It has to tell your reader what point you are trying to make: What are you going to tell them in your paper. Thats your Thesis Statement.

Body: Here you fully develop the main idea of your Review:

1.in the body of the paper you share you opinion about the movie with your readers and give specific examples;

2.you also tell your readers what other movie critics have said about the movie (you can agree or argue with them if needed)

3.finally discuss the ethical issue presented in the movie

Conclusion: here you are saying goodbye to your reader.

1.The most important point(s) of your paper what you want your reader to take with them

2.The significance, the So What? question: Why was is important for you to write this paper? Why should they read it?

3.Your after thought / reflection, etc.

What I want you to cover in the concluding paragraph for your movie review:

oTell your readers whether they should/should not see this movie

oGive three reasons why they should/should not see this movie

oGive a powerful final statement about this movie

Works Cited

This is the last page of your paper the page where you list all articles, books, websites, videos and etc. that gave information for your paper. You need to provide the following information:

Author, Title of the Article/book, Title of the journal, magazine, website where it was published, all available numbers: issue, pages, and etc, date it was published, medium (Web, print, DVD, etc) and the date you found the source.

You will need to cite:

1.The movie itself (DVD, Netflix, or youtube)

2.The source of your background information (it can be Wikipedia or Rottentomatoes)

3.2 reviews written by professional critics about your movie