The focus of this week’s session was paraphrasing, specifically in an academic setting. Paraphrasing to put it simply is articulating the meaning of a passage without replicating its content. To demonstrate that we understand this Nigel tasked the class with paraphrasing the following parapgraph.
’The authenticity of a documentary is ‘deeply linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images are linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images bear evidence of events that actually happened, by virtue of the indexical relationship between image and reality’
The authenticity of a documentary is grounded in realism and documentary images depict real events (Roe, Animated documentary 2013)