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Assignment Sequences with Some Readings
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Assignment |
Work |
Writing |
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Assignment 1) Relics of Identity |
observation/analysis of artifact – souvenir of area (observing – artifact) |
present example as a response to Dilworth (description with argument) |
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Assignment 2) Picturing Ethnicity |
visual images (content analysis) of particular ethnic group portrayed in media (observing – visuals – content analysis) |
present data and analysis to consider what the portrayals suggest about American culture (description with argument) |
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Assignment 3) Telling Stories |
interview combined with another view (another person, diary, histories, etc) (interviewing – oral history plus secondary source -- textual analysis) |
present synthesized account |
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Assignment 4) History and Ethnicity |
revision of any of the earlier pieces adding interviews, statistical information, archival materials, etc. as appropriate and possible (revision that adds another method) |
synthesize these sources of information into a history of the ethnic group considered |
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Assignment 5) Reflecting on Ethnicity |
use earlier work (and that of classmates) to make argument about ethnicity in America (synthesis) |
synthesis, revision; opportunity here for different forms of writing |
Though apparently shorter than most, this sequence includes work with three different methods and the possibility of a fourth as well. Benmayor would be an appropriate substitution for Yung in this sequence and Lutz and Collins might be used in place of Chavez.
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