- 03 Apr, 2021
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Observation Paper
Questions (you must answer all of these questions for each of the 3-4 observations)
1. What are the most significant / obvious messages of communicated gender that you notice in your world? Choose three or four examples from your days of observing. Describe these examples in detail.
2. Are you comfortable or uncomfortable with these messages? Why?
3. How does your gender affect your perceptions of the messages that you have observed and recorded?
4. Would somebody else have a different response to these messages? Describe your observations to another person and ask them how they perceive these gendered messages. Explain their response and/or your conversation.
5. Use a concept that you have learned about in the lectures or textbook and apply it to your observations. How does the concept help explain what you observed? Do your observations support or contradict the concept that you are using?
Format:
Your paper must be given a title. You should write in the first person (using “I”).
Academic sources are NOT required for this paper. However, if you choose to directly quote any material (whether from the textbook or lectures), you must cite it accordingly (please refer to “Course Documents” on Blackboard for related resources). If you are not directly quoting material, it is acceptable to simply write, “As we learned in this week’s lecture…” or “In the Martin article…” etc.
Suggestions:
Be open-minded and curious as you begin to observe your world. You do not have to begin by looking for any one specific thing. Be still and see what emerges for you.
Use as many senses as possible in order to enhance your observations. Is it something you heard? Something you saw? Something you noticed about touch?
Be mindful of who, what, when, where, why as you are observing and taking notes.