Write a reading summary on a primary source of Victorian Britain
-- The writer's job is to write a reading summary of Matthew Arnold's "Culture and Anarchy."
-- These are the questions you should answer in the summary:
Questions to Think About: 1. What is Culture? 2. Who are the Philistines? 3. Who are the Barbarians? 4. What does Arnold mean by Sweetness and Light?
-- Instructions of reading summary in general:
What is it about? Do not simply list topics. Describe what it says. Faithfully represent the entire assigned reading, not particular parts.
Do not use quotes, except to refer to a particular word or expression; you should paraphrase.
What does it argue? What do you think the author’s aim is?
Who do you think the intended audience is?
Where does the author get his/her information? What are the sources?
Does the author simply describe a problem, or is a solution identified?
Is there one part that stands out to you? Why?
No footnotes required.
Do not use subtitles.
-- Attached are some of the past reading summaries.
- Do not use outside sources.
- Attached is the reading (79).
- The website is to a podcast, by listening which you will get additional information about the auhtor
- For Arnold's primary source, only read ch1-ch4
- Also attached (Reading summary 6) are some notes about the reading for you to reference to
- You only need to cite form the primary source itself. Chicago in-text citation will do.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b01phf4c
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