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Formal writing 1: Contextual exploration

1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 The first piece of formal writing you will submit, at the end of our first unit, will be an extended version of the reading summaries you will write throughout the semester.

2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 Choose one of the assigned readings from the first unit of class. (If you wish, you may choose a text from the syllabus that we have not yet discussed. There will be much more material to work with if you choose an older texts that has become somewhat canonical, though.) Use your research skills to answer the following question:

3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 What is the significance of this work within feminist knowledge production?

4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 You might look at its original publication and at whether it has been reprinted; at political and historical events that were taking place when it came out; at reviews, critiques, or other responses published at the time and afterward; at the disciplinary, activist, and/or popular contexts in which it tends to be cited, both within and outside of academia.

5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 You need not present the results of your research as a thesis-driven argument, but you should synthesize and explain what you have discovered – don’t just compile a list of quotations. Imagine that your audience is a fellow graduate student in a related, non-WMST field; they have picked up this text, which they have never encountered before, and asked you to explain its import in Women’s Studies.

6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 You are free to write about a text you have summarized on the blog, but you should not repeat the summary.

7 Leave a comment on paragraph 7 0 Write at least 800 and no more than 1200 words.

8 Leave a comment on paragraph 8 0 This assignment is due on ELMS on Monday October 3.

9 Leave a comment on paragraph 9 0 Use .doc, .docx, .rtf or .pdf format only. Include full citations in the style of your choice.

Source: https://wmst601fa16.queergeektheory.org/syllabus/requirements/formal-writing-1-contextual-exploration/