+1 862 207 3288 • Who is being addressed?
•What ideas, values, beliefs are present/absent?
• Whose voices receive attention?
• Whose interests are served?
• How might audiences be influenced
• Which stereotypes are perpetuated?
• What norms/values are privileged?
Along with concepts such as identity politics.
However, your reflection should move beyond an artistic review. Think about the social, political, medical knowledge base of the both the producer and audience of the art.
What was known/believed about HIV/AIDS when the work debuted? (Use the text By Christopher Capozzola about the AIDS quilt as a model for integrating cultural context into a discussion of a cultural product) Consider:
How did it reinforce or challenge existing ideas?
Who was it intended for?
Does it reinforce or challenge notions of stigma?
How does its distribution, presentation determine who may have access to it?
Draw on at least four other class readings (not necessarily from the Media or Arts lessons of the course ) to help frame your discussion. These texts can speak to the medical/social/legal conditions of the work’s context. Use at least three works from outside class (reviews, biographies, criticism, etc.) to support your investigation.
Please include a cover page, bibliography and use proper citation style.
HOW TO WRITE AN ESSAY 101
1) Introduction
State the main theme of your essay.
Gesturetowards your conclusion.
2) Paragraph Structure
Statethe main point of your paragraph.
Elaborate.
Quoteor cite an example.
Summarize the key point.
4) Conclusion
Repeatthe main points that your paper hasdeveloped.
Doublecheckyour introduction. Is this really whatyou have done?
If not, rewriteyour introduction.
Checklist for Essay Writing
• Have I carried out and included relevant research from a range of sources?
• Have I fully referenced all the sources in the text and at the end?
• Have I typed and double spaced my essay?
• Does the opening of my essay capture attention and outline my approach?
• Are the paragraphs and main points in a logical order?
• Are supporting details convincing and in a logical order?
• Is it possible to tell where one point ends and another begins?
• Have I removed irrelevant information and repetitive words or sentences?
• Is my conclusion strong?
• Have I double checked the spelling and meanings of words?
• Has my essay been proofread?
REFERENCING
A paper is not written from your thoughts alone. You are in conversation with other scholars, researchers and theorists. You can use their arguments to support yours, or take them on in order to assert your point of view. It is extremely important that you always cite their work to:
1) Give credit where credit is due.
2) Clarify which ideas are yours, and which are adapted/adopted from others.
PARAPHRASING:
Writing another person’s ideas inyour own words tofurther elaborate/illustrate your argument. You might also want to paraphrase to summarize an author’s main arguments, instead of finding a particular sentence to quote.When you paraphrase, make sure to understand what the original text is saying, then close the book and
write the passage in your own words. Once again, you need to cite a source for a paraphrase even though you did not quote from the source directly.
QUOTING:
Quoting is using another’s exact words either to add authority to the concept, theory, or information one istrying to convey or because that author has stated so clearly what one is wishing to say that one couldnot say it better oneself.
ALL QUOTATIONS AND PARAPHRASES MUST BE REFERENCED.
There are many ways to cite your sources. However, “parenthetical citations” are the easiest. If you writea sentence that contains ideas that have been paraphrased, you must include the author’s name, thedate of publication, and the page number in brackets at the end of the sentence. For example:
Gender is not necessarily a product of biology. Instead, gender is socially constructed. In otherwords, gender is something that one learns to do (de Beauvoir, 1952:267).
Parenthetical citations are also used for direct quotes. For example:
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman” (de Beauvoir, 1952:267).
If a quote is longer than 3 sentences, you should place it in a block quote in your text. Block quotes areindented and singlespaced.
Please use APA citation style. Information can be found here:
http://library.concordia.ca/help/howto/apa.php
Adapted from Student Learning Services. Concordia University.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The bibliography is aIist of sources used in writing your research paper. It appears at the end of thepaper. It is single spaced. However, individual entries should be separated by a space, and arrangedalphabetically by the author’s last name. The first line of each entry is aligned with the left margin;second and succeeding lines are indented five spaces.
Different sources are cited differently. For example;
Books, single author:
• Nolen, S. (2007). “Why 28?” and “Glossary.” EXCERPTS from 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa. Toronto: Knopf, p. 4-11, p. 379-386.
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Article, more than one author:
• Poundstone, K.E., Strathdee, S.A., Celentano, D.D. (2004). “The social epidemiology of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.” Epidemiological Reviews, 26, pp. 22-30.
There are specific rules for citing films, newspaper articles, material found online, etc. Be sure to check proper format for each item listed in your bibliography.
What is Plagiarism?
The university in its Academic Code of Conduct defines plagiarism as “The presentation of the work of another person as one’s own or without proper acknowledgement” (Article 16a of the Academic Code of Conduct). It also includes using another person’s words as one’s own without the required use of quotation marks (and referencing).
This includes copying someone else’s work, submitting someone’ else’s work as your own, resubmitting work from another source AND not acknowledging the source of ideas, concepts, arguments used in your own work.
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