Description: Write a short reflection papers ,Each paper must make connections between your personal thoughts, experiences and
observations of how class concepts of gender, feminism, women’s studies and related ideas manifest
in your actual life AND must make direct connections to readings from each week of the unit. Each
paper must be 500-700 words, written in complete sentences, with coherent grammar and spelling,
and correct MLA or APA citations and references, as well as correct paper formatting for the
appropriate citation style you are choosing to work with.
Think of this assignment as both a way to work through ideas that you may end up incorporating
into your final paper, and also as a way to engage with and to make direct connections between
course materials (readings, films, lectures) and your own personal experiences, opinions, and
observations of the world around you. You must engage with course readings in the reflections and
you MUST CITE your sources—correctly. Each reflection is worth 10% of Final Grade (30% total).
To recap:
- Reference unit readings
- Reference unit lectures
- Connect these ideas to your personal experience and your observations of the world around you
- Use correct paper formatting style, either MLA or APA citation styles, cite references.
- Use correct spelling, grammar, and English mechanics in each paper
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It’s okay—in fact it is required—that you write this reflection from a subjective viewpoint:
“reflection” means that you reflect on the subject matter and concepts and discuss your
thoughts about them!
DO:
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Figure out how to triangulate between personal experience, readings & lectures, and the
world around you: how do these things connect? How are the learnings impacting your
awareness of your life and those around you, what is changing, what is not changing, what
do you want to see change? - Use “I” and the first-person point of view!
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Feel free to engage with questions that have come up for you—and take a shot at answering
them! -
Cite your sources and any reference that you make to course materials, whether you quote it
directly or not! -
Feel free to speak your mind: this is a chance to engage with the ideas here personally as
well as intellectually. The voice in these should be appropriate to university writing, but it can
be subjective and through your personal point of view. You may write whatever you’d like
about your own lived experiences, so long as you are comfortable with me and the TAs
reading it, and the content is appropriate to share with us. However, you still must
support your points with evidence (citing source materials)! - Think about how what you are working on could be developed into your final paper!
- DON’T:
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Write a summary of my lecture, or of the slides. That’s not the assignment. I know what I
said in the lecture…and I do not need to read a regurgitation of it. -
Say that you take issue with a reading or a concept or documentary or idea without
explaining why and supporting your stance with evidence (cited sources). -
Say that you LOVE a reading or a concept or documentary or idea without explaining why
and supporting your stance with evidence (cited sources). -
Submit a reflection paper that does not engage with the concepts and themes of class,
that is poorly written or ill-conceived, or that comes across as without adequate effort or
sloppy execution—it will receive little or no credit. And I, along with your TAs, will be really
bummed out by such papers and will mark accordingly! -
Submit papers without actually watching the lectures or doing the readings. Trust me: we can
tell when you’re just phoning it in!
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Write a summary of my lecture, or of the slides. That’s not the assignment. I know what I
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