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Preparation for Writing Paper 1:
1. Review course materials on gender and the American family.
2. Find 4 (four) outside sources on gender and the American
family/and or media representations.
3. Choose 3 (three) television shows you believe are good examples
of how US media represents gender and family on television
(stereotypes, traditional gender roles, etc.)
4. Once you have chosen your television shows, watch an episode
or two, and take notes.
5. Your notes will help provide more detail for your examples on
this assignment.
Your paper should include the following:
Appendix of your three TV shows episodes
The appendix (in your own words) needs to provide general
information on each of the programs included in your analysis. This
should include an overview of the setting, relevant characters, and
the target audience. Again, you do not need to summarize the
episodes that you watched. Just give me a quick background of the
show. Make sure to tell me the TV show name, the season of the
episode you are using for your paper, and the episode number and
title that you are using. You can use more than one episode, but it
tends to be easiest to select one episode per TV show.
Introduction
Explain what your paper is about.
1. What about gender and family are you covering?
In order to guide your writing, you should have a couple of questions
that you are attempting to answer.
• Example: What are the differences across the programs in terms of
portraying gender roles within the family and work, race/ethnicity,
romantic relationships, children/parent dynamics, family dynamics,
class status, reproduction of children (adoption, IVF, biological
children, blended families, etc.)?
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Introduction
Explain what your paper is about.
1. What about gender and family are you covering?
In order to guide your writing, you should have a couple of questions
that you are attempting to answer.
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Example: What are the differences across the programs in terms of
portraying gender roles within the family and work, race/ethnicity,
romantic relationships, children/parent dynamics, family dynamics,
class status, reproduction of children (adoption, IVF, biological
children, blended families, etc.)?
Include those in your introduction, and name the shows you have
watched. In this paper, you would obviously focus on gender.
Literature Review and Overall Body of Paper
This is where you bring in course materials and outside sources. Use
them to support your statements about media representation of
gender and family. This is where you also include your television
shows as examples.
Conclusion
Why does this paper matter? Tell us about the importance of
accurate representations of gender in American Television. Give us a
summary of what you observed.
Reference List of Your Four Outside Scholarly Resources
Note: Do not use blogs, Wikipedia or other online encyclopedia sources
such as answer.com in this assignment. These are not reputable, peer-
reviewed scholarly sources.
An excellent place to start is the “Web of Science Database”, which
you can access via the FAU library website (you do not have to be on
campus to access the database – you will just have to log in via off-
campus access).
If you are a fan of Google, be sure to check out the library’s tailored
google scholar search. It allows you to access the content available
through FAU directly and request it via inter-library loan (again a
login is required to do this off campus).
You must list your four resources in reference formatting APA or
ASA.
Don’t forget that the librarians are available to help you with
your
searches!
Following
Directions
• Paper 1 should be 2-3 pages in length.
• Make sure that all of the required information is clearly detailed.
• Your assignment must be typed and uploaded to turnitin.com. If
you are not sure how to do this, see the instructions provided on
the syllabus
Here is what we will use to score your paper: (Rubric attached)
You will earn an Aif you turn in a detailed appendix that meets all
the required parts; four scholarly references in APA or ASA
formatting; and have a strong intro that includes guiding questions,
a compelling literature review and examples, followed by a strong
conclusion.
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