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Formal writing 2: contextual exploration

1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 Your second piece of formal writing will be a deeper exploration of any one of our readings. Choose a text that you expect to be important to your final project and/or to your doctoral work more broadly, and research its context sufficiently to answer the following question:

2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 What is the significance of this work within feminist knowledge production?

3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 You might look at its publication history; at the writer’s other work and their overall intellectual project; at political and historical events that were taking place when it came out; at reviews, critiques, or other responses published at the time and afterward; at the disciplinary, activist, and/or popular contexts in which it tends to be cited, both within and outside of academia.

4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 You need not present the results of your research as a thesis-driven argument, but you should synthesize and explain what you have discovered – don’t just compile a list of quotations, and don’t just summarize the argument. It might help to imagine that your audience is a fellow graduate student in a related, non-WMST area; they have picked up this text, which they have never encountered before, and asked you to explain why it matters in your field.

5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 You are free to write about a text you have summarized on the blog, but you should not repeat your summary.

6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 Write at least 800 and no more than 1200 words.

7 Leave a comment on paragraph 7 0 This assignment is due on ELMS on Monday October 30.

8 Leave a comment on paragraph 8 0 Use .doc, .docx, .rtf or .pdf format only. Include full citations in the style of your choice.

Source: https://wmst601fa17.queergeektheory.org/syllabus/requirements/formal-writing-2-contextual-exploration/?replytopara