Expert answer:5 pages (About 1250 words) MLA 8Please Finish on time.Read requirements and reading carefully and make sure you have follow it.You must can use 6 classes reading that I send to you. WARNING: USING LESS SOURCES WILL AUTOMATICALLY GIVEYOUR ESSAY AN F.The purpose of this essay is to show the professor that you have read these lessons reading carefully and understand them. This is the most important part. So read it well and use in your essay.Prompt:In Apocalypse Postponed, Umberto Eco criticizes those whom he calls “theapocalyptic theorists of mass communications” because, according to Eco, theygive too much power to mass media. Against them, Eco argues that mass mediacan never have total power over us because we always have the capacity to fillin the messages we receive with “ ‘aberrant’ meanings according to [our]particular cultural codes”.Respond by:a) explaining what Eco means by thisb) arguing whether you agree or disagree with Eco.CITATION STYLEBe sure to use quotation marks when quoting directly from an author.a) In text citations must include author’s surname, year, and page numberi) Example when citing verbatim:According to Bourdieu (1991:45) “blablabla”ii) Example when paraphrasing an author:Bourdieu argues that language is a site of power (1991:45)b) Bibliography:Your essay must include a bibliography at the end including all thereferences cited in the text.If you are citing from the syllabus, just copy the reference from the syllabus. Ifyou are using other sources, following the same format.Example:Bourdieu, Pierre (1991) “The production and reproduction of legitimate language”from Language and Symbolic PowerEVALUATION CRITERIAWe will assess your essay against the following two criteria:1) Your ability to demonstrate that you have fully read and understood thetexts that you cite.IMPORTANT!!! Citing one line from a text does NOT count as showing thatyou have read and understood a text.2) The ability to develop a coherent, well-argued, and original criticalargument.CHEATING1) All quotations from authors should be clearly demarcated using “quotationmarks”. Otherwise it will be treated as plagiarism.2) Having someone else involved or an online service not employed by theUniversity – AT ANY EXTENT – in your individual assignment means that youhave failed to fairly and honestly meet the purposes of the assignments and thus,you have cheated.
