Assignments

Critical Response Papers (40%) -- You will complete a number short, critical, analytical response papers. These single-spaced, one-page writings serve as close readings of, analyses of, and articulations of the texts and connections you see, read, and talk about in the tutorial. These responses are more than just summaries or personal reactions and will be graded on clarity, focus, coherence, critique, and your ability to concisely formulate arguments. You will be required to generate a response paper approximately every other week for a total of 8. See the response paper prompt for more details.

Project Proposal Memo (10%) -- As part of your Final Project research and writing process, you must generate a 1-page research proposal in business memo format. You will also arrange for a conference with me to go over your proposal. Proposals will be graded for clarity, detail, completion, and manuscript format. Your proposal and conference must be completed at least 4 weeks prior to the end of the semester.

Final Paper/Project(20%) -- You will complete a Final Project that integrates what you have read, explored, and written about in your Response Papers, that draws on specific terms, concepts, or issues from our discussions, and that articulates the critical value of feminist memoirs. The project asks you to make connections and to create an argument across different kinds of evidence and added research. Your final project can be a traditional research paper, a media production (which includes a substantive analytical component), or a hybrid of the two.

Information Sheets

The following are handouts, informational sheets, and readings that will be assigned or used over the course of the quarter. Each student will recieve a copy of each as a handout in class during the appropriate week. If you miss a sheet, feel free to print out a new copy.

Ed's Top Ten List of "Ways to Survive University"

Ed's Top Ten Rules of Writing

Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

MLA Citation and Bibliographic Format

What is Close Reading?

Readings

Course texts are available via the Ohio University online bookstore (or through any reputable bookseller). Shorter readings are available via the course Blackboard. The required texts for this tutorial are:

Keller, Helen. The Story of My Life. Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road. Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior. Pratt, Minnie Bruce. S/He. Walls, Jeanette. The Glass Castle. Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home. Harjo, Joy. Crazy Brave. Mock, Janet. Redefining Realness. Manzano, Sonia. Becoming Maria. Gay, Roxane. Hunger.

Consult the course syllabus for the week's required reading. The following is a full bibliographical list of the class readings:

Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home. Boston: Mariner Books, 2006. Ferguson, Robert A. "Race." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 191-196. Gay, Roxane. Hunger. New York: Harper Collins, 2017. Halberstam, Judith. "Gender." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 116-120. Harjo, Joy. Crazy Brave. New York: Norton, 2012. Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road. New York: Harper Perennial, 2017. Keller, Helen. The Story of My Life. New York: Penguin, 1996. Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior. New York: Vintage, 1989. Manzano, Sonia. Becoming Maria. New York: Scholastic, 2015. Mock, Janet. Redefining Realness. New York: Atria, 2014. Pratt, Minnie Bruce. S/He. New York: Alyson Books, 2005. Somerville, Siobhan B. "Queer." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 187-191. Walls, Jeanette. The Glass Castle. New York: Scribner, 2006. Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. New York: Harcourt, 1929.

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