​​Exegesis 
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​​Purpose ​🎯​ 

​​An Exegesis is an assessment that accompanies a creative project. An Exegesis takes a similar structure as an Essay, but the content is very different — it focuses on the creative work for instance a painting, portfolio, or film script. For your Exegesis, you will critically examine your creative project in the light of contemporary theory and practice. 
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​​Task Description ​✏️​ 

​​As part of your Exegesis, you may choose to explore the influences, ideas, decisions, materials, and technologies, which inspire, inform, restrain, or facilitate the process and production of your work. 
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​​Additional Information ​đź“š​ 

​​To help you complete this task successfully, the following resources are provided:
  • ​​Marking Rubric — refer to this to understand how you will be assessed
  • ​​Checklist: How to write an Exegesis — use this to help you complete the task
  • ​​Example: Exegesis — review this to see a completed example of the task
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​​Checklist: How to write an Exegesis ​âś…​ 

​​Copy and paste this checklist into your Notes. Check off each step as you complete it.
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​​Step 1: Task Understanding
  • ​​Read the instructions and this checklist carefully 
  • ​​Read the Marking Rubric carefully
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​​Step 2: Creative Process
  • ​​Throughout, keep a visual diary of your work, this is where you will show the progress and transformations of your work 
  • ​​Tip: you may want to also add this to the Notes section of Cadmus to help with drafting
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​​Step 3: Critical Analysis 
  • ​​Once finished, critically analyse the following (adding comments to the Notes section of Cadmus): 
  • ​​Your creative process 
  • ​​Your decision throughout this creative process 
  • ​​The context that you made these decisions in
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​​Step 3: Plan Exegesis
  • ​​Review the Exegesis Example
  • ​​Write a plan for your Exegesis, using dot points and headings. To help, please use this template:
  • ​​Introduction
  • ​​A brief outline of the work you're writing about
  • ​​Why it is important to you/your audience
  • ​​What aspects you will concentrate on
  • ​​Body
  • ​​Section on the relationship of the form, content, and materials to the purpose and function of the work (consider include the relationship between ideas and practical considerations here)
  • ​​Section on the context of the work (i.e. physical, artistic, historical, social, and theoretical contexts). Some theory should inform this section.
  • ​​Section which discusses the project or individual work in detail, closely analysing key aspects of the work in relation to the ideas and theories expressed
  • ​​Conclusion
  • ​​Summarise the points
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​​Step 4: Submit Draft
  • ​​Submit your Exegesis plan (as a draft) 
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​​Step 6: Peer Review  
  • ​​You will review a peer’s Exegesis draft. Instructions will be provided in class