I have  recently gone back through my essay and have begun to move on to the media part of my essay but Because of the Christmas peroid and January exams I have decided to take abit of a break from the extended project. I will still be taking notes but will not be adding to my essay for a while.

Recently online  television critic Nathan Rabin on the AV club has gone back to review every episode of The Simpsons. Although some of the reivew is more the quality of the episode it still provides a good commentary and refers to refrences and in-jokes about certain historical events I wasnt aware of. Heres a review for one of the episodes which I talk about lots in my essay http://www.avclub.com/articles/two-cars-in-every-garage-and-three-eyes-on-every-f,45838/). I need to ask my tutor whats the best way to refrence internet websites.

I have taken notes on information of the DVD commentary tracks and will add them to my essay, one commentary on 'The Joy of Sect' has given me alot of information regarding media and religon which I can use. I have also taken out another book from the city libuary called Simpsons Confidentail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons:_An_Uncensored,_Unauthorized_History) although its 100% unofficial it does provide lots of comments and quotes by the behind the scenes people that I can use for my essay.

I have now completed my very first draft of the whole essay and have came to 4500 words. I will add the resources I have used to it and it should bring the word count up. I am using the harvard refrencing generator which my tutor sent me (http://www.harvardgenerator.com/).

My tutor has sent me a link to Mahara (https://mahara.org/) which I'm using to help me structure my essay and to help me present my refrences in an approaite way. I have also been using my form tutor blogs which offers many resources and links about how to go about writing the essay and giving examples.

The Simpson archive (www.snpp.com) which I have refrenced before also has published articles and interviews with writers. This is very helpful and a good way of having lots of resources and potential refrences in one place. Heres the link (http://www.snpp.com/misc.html)

I have just found another documentary this one presented by Oprah which I can use to refrence and use to back up my statements espicially those concering how its related to popular culture. Heres a limk to part of it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLTqFZMlbRI.