Doing gender determining gender

Order Description GWS 150B1: Gender and Contemporary Society Short Essay #2 Instructions: 1. Writeashortessay(750-900words)inresponsetothepromptbelow. 2. Keepinmindthatitwillbegradedbasedonthefollowingcriteria: a. The essay should respond to the prompt question fully, specifically and accurately. In doing so, the essay should demonstrate your comprehension of the readings, key course concepts, and information discussed in lectures and sections, by drawing on those course materials to support your argument. b. The essay should be well written. It should make a coherent logical argument, with a thesis statement and supporting reasoning. Sentences and paragraphs should be organized so as to support the logical development of the argument. The essay should include complete sentences, correct grammar and spelling, and appropriate punctuation. 3. SubmittheessaythroughD2LnolaterthanMonday,October3,5PM.It must be submitted in Microsoft Word, double-spaced, using 12 point Times New Roman font with 1-inch margins. Prompt: Read the essay by Laurel Westbrook and Kristen Schilt, entitled ?Doing Gender, Determining Gender.? (This is the assigned reading for Monday September 21). As you will see, Westbrook and Schilt have a particular take related to what we have covered in class related to the category of ?gender?. Write a short essay in which you identify and describe Westbrook and Schilt?s project and argument. The project is the purpose of the essay: what topic does the author investigate or discover? (Recall lecture topics on 9/21 and the film Toilet Training.) What questions do Wesbrook and Schilt pose? What new approaches or perspectives do Westbrook and Schilt contribute to understanding the process they name as ?determining gender?? The argument is the claim the author makes about the topic, PLUS the evidence or reasoning they bring to bear in support of that claim. (Other terms that mean the same thing as claim are ?thesis? or ?the main point.?). What is Westbrook ??? and Schilt?s main point? What reasoning do Westbrook and Schilt offer, to help us to see and understand the thesis, to persuade us of this main idea? Are there some key sub-arguments that take us step by step to the larger claim? Hints for reading and writing: Westbrooke and Schilt?s essay is well organized, straightforward and clear. They lay out their project in the opening section, (on pgs. 71-72). The essay has subsections with titles that indicate the topic of each section. They offer a clear review and the impact of their argument at the end of the essay (80-82). After careful reading, outlining, and notetaking, you are ready to write. Your essay should present the authors? project and argument in your own words. Use short quotes from Westbrook and Schilt?s essay as evidence to support your own claims about it Note about citing sources: You do not need to use any sources other than the Westbrooke and Schilt essay itself, but are welcome to include references to lecture, the film Toilet Training or the essay ?What It Means to be a Gendered Me? by Betsy Lucal but are not required to do so. You can use a very simple citation method: simply put the authors name and page number from which you are quoting or paraphrasing in parenthesis after the quote or paraphrase. On Plagiarism: What is plagiarism and why is it important? ?? In college courses, we're continually engaged with other people's ideas: We read them in texts, hear them in lectures, discuss them in class, and incorporate them into our own writing. It's very important that we give credit where credit is due. Plagiarism is using other people's ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information. To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you: ? Use another person's idea, opinion, or theory ? Use any pieces of information (for example, facts, statistics, graphs, or drawings) that aren't common knowledge ? Use quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words ? Paraphrase another person's spoken or written words For More Info: https://www.library.arizona.edu/help/tutorials/plagiarism/index.html