Assignment 5

Write a 1,500-word paper that develops a topic and a position using three sources from Academic Reading.
For your final assignment, you’ll be provided with opportunities to combine the things you’ve learned to date—summary and citation, definition, and comparison—in order to develop a position in relation to what other writers say. To help you do this, this unit will focus specifically on the features of scholarly introductions and conclusions.
For Assignment 5, you’ll be required to consult three academic sources that will enable you to conduct research on a topic of your choosing. However, your choice of topics will be restricted to those areas of inquiry represented in Academic Reading, as all of your sources will come from this text. If you wish, you may use the two readings you used for Assignment 4, but make sure that the paper you produce moves beyond the work you did for that assignment. You should find that incorporating a third source and re-thinking familiar material in light of this third source will do just this.
Below is a list of suggested topics and related readings from Academic Reading, but feel free to develop your own topic out of these combinations:
Race/Ethnicity (Kabeer, Cunningham, Chavez, Jones, Verkuyten et al., Crosby)
Labour/Work (Kabeer, Durrenberger and Erem, Chavez, Levi and Olson, Sull)
Gender (Kabeer, Englund, Calhoun, Delph-Janiurek)
Community (Kabeer, Chavez, Levi and Olson)
Human Migration (Kabeer, Chavez, Englund, Verkuyten et al., Cunningham)
Knowledge/Expertise (Bertin and Henifin, Redding and Repucci, Kebbell and Giles, Hagen, Jones, Crosby, van Houts) (USE THIS)
Social Roles/Identities (Amit-Talai, Cunningham, Delph-Janiurek, Kabeer, Calhoun, Crosby)
Schooling (Englund, Lu, Jones, Crosby, Amit-Talai, Battiste and Battiste)
Note: Many of these topics can be combined (e.g., gender and labour, gender and community, social roles and labour, human migration and labour, schooling and social roles, community and human migration, and so on).
To refine your topic, survey what has been said about it in the articles you’ve chosen. Then identify opportunities for inquiry by comparing what’s been said. You’ll find that comparing often generates questions. These questions will help you identity a knowledge deficit, which, in turn, will help you develop a position in relation to the studies you’re investigating (more on this later).

Assignment 5

Write a 1,500-word paper that develops a topic and a position using three sources from Academic Reading.
For your final assignment, you’ll be provided with opportunities to combine the things you’ve learned to date—summary and citation, definition, and comparison—in order to develop a position in relation to what other writers say. To help you do this, this unit will focus specifically on the features of scholarly introductions and conclusions.
For Assignment 5, you’ll be required to consult three academic sources that will enable you to conduct research on a topic of your choosing. However, your choice of topics will be restricted to those areas of inquiry represented in Academic Reading, as all of your sources will come from this text. If you wish, you may use the two readings you used for Assignment 4, but make sure that the paper you produce moves beyond the work you did for that assignment. You should find that incorporating a third source and re-thinking familiar material in light of this third source will do just this.
Below is a list of suggested topics and related readings from Academic Reading, but feel free to develop your own topic out of these combinations:
Race/Ethnicity (Kabeer, Cunningham, Chavez, Jones, Verkuyten et al., Crosby)
Labour/Work (Kabeer, Durrenberger and Erem, Chavez, Levi and Olson, Sull)
Gender (Kabeer, Englund, Calhoun, Delph-Janiurek)
Community (Kabeer, Chavez, Levi and Olson)
Human Migration (Kabeer, Chavez, Englund, Verkuyten et al., Cunningham)
Knowledge/Expertise (Bertin and Henifin, Redding and Repucci, Kebbell and Giles, Hagen, Jones, Crosby, van Houts) (USE THIS)
Social Roles/Identities (Amit-Talai, Cunningham, Delph-Janiurek, Kabeer, Calhoun, Crosby)
Schooling (Englund, Lu, Jones, Crosby, Amit-Talai, Battiste and Battiste)
Note: Many of these topics can be combined (e.g., gender and labour, gender and community, social roles and labour, human migration and labour, schooling and social roles, community and human migration, and so on).
To refine your topic, survey what has been said about it in the articles you’ve chosen. Then identify opportunities for inquiry by comparing what’s been said. You’ll find that comparing often generates questions. These questions will help you identity a knowledge deficit, which, in turn, will help you develop a position in relation to the studies you’re investigating (more on this later).