Based on the readings from this casebook, use the following writing prompt for your essay. Make sure you prepare your essay in MLA format including: a heading, a title, in-text citations, and a Works Cited page with a minimum of three sources. Refer to Bedford Researcher Chapter 21 for MLA Style and p357-361 for a sample paper.
Choose two essays from this casebook that challenge similar cultural assumptions about gender. Identify an assumption that interests you and put each writer’s argument to the test by examining the way he or she uses evidence to challenge that assumption. First, make a list of the evidence used by each writer. Then, track down some of the original sources – scientific articles, newspaper reports, or statistics – used by the original writer. When you read them in their entirety, do these sources seem to support the author’s position? After you’ve done this, find at least two more sources that address your chosen assumption. Once you’ve collected your evidence, write an objective, documented essay that makes an argument about the origins, meaning, or validity of the assumption challenged in the essays you’ve chosen to work with.
For the Works Cited, include the 2 articles from the case but PLUS at least 3 other outside sources [minimum of 5 sources]
Book Required: Fields of Reading, 10th edition motives for writing by nancy R Comley etc.
Here are the Cases from the book:
1. Anne Fausto-Sterling: Society Constructs Biology; Biology Constructs Gender
(p681)
2. E.J. Graff: The M/F Boxes (p695)
3. Jay Prosser: The Body Narrative of Transsexuality (p701)
4. Peggy Orenstein: What Makes a Woman a Woman? (p705)
5. Stephen Jay Gould: Women’s Brains (p709)
6. Michael Chabon: Faking It (p715)
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