Thursday, February 25, 2016

My Interviewees as Professional Writers

I've done some research on my interviewees and they are all authors of books and essays that have been published in academic journals. I will provide more information about them as professional writers in the questions below for this post.


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Types of Professional Publications 

(according to their website, CV and/or other easily findable online resources that list their publications):


Patricia MacCorquodale:

Patricia has authored several essays and published books. She has been published in "Feminist Studies, Inc.," "IEEE Spectrum," "Social Science Journal," "State University of NY (SUNY) Press," and "Gender & Society." 

Monica Jasper:

Monica has written books and many essays pertaining to gender and women's issues. Publications that worked with her are Rutgers University Press, Routledge, NYU Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Metropolitics, "Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology," "Gender and Society," and "Women's Studies Quarterly."

Publications and Genres


MacCorquodale-


The first example is a formal essay from "Gender & Society," and SAGE published it. The second example was also published by SAGE, but it's excerpted from the European Journal of Women's Studies. Both journals are formal and publish academic and scientific essays.  

Monica Jasper-

The first example is an essay that was apart of "Gender & Society's" December, 2009 issue. It was published online in "SAGE journals," a professional and academic publishing company. SAGE does not have a specific focus when it comes to the essays they publish. 
  • The essay includes feminist science studies and research. This essay is formal and in a PDF, it reads like a research paper, and it also includes formal citations. 
The second example is an essay published in "Ada," an open-access peer-reviewed journal that focuses on gender, new media, and technology. Ada is preserved by the University of Oregon's "FemBot Collective," run by their School of Journalism and Communication. 
  • The essay reads sort of like a QRG or blog post. There are pictures, it was formatted for the web/blog, and hyperlinks are used, rather than formal citations that are found in traditional published essays.

Context

(See the bulleted questions on Student's Guide page 180 for specific questions about context). Cite specific details from the pieces in your answers.

For Patricia:

What is the date of publication or delivery?

  • "Women in the Law"- December 1993
  • "Authority in Transformation"- May 1996


What medium is used to deliver the message? What "rules"or conventions are typical to the medium?

  • Written text/essay. 


What contemporary events may have shaped the author's views and the audience's response?

What social and historical movements are related to the topic?

What are the cultural and linguistic backgrounds of the primary and secondary audiences?

What are the physical and material surroundings of the event or text (i.e., the city where a speech is delivered or the magazine in which a text is published?)

What other texts (i.e., texts of the same genre, by the same author, written in the same time period, etc.) relate to your text? It is a reaction to these other texts?

For Monica:


What is the date of publication or delivery?

What medium is used to deliver the message? What "rules"or conventions are typical to the medium?

What contemporary events may have shaped the author's views and the audience's response?

What social and historical movements are related to the topic?

What are the cultural and linguistic backgrounds of the primary and secondary audiences?

What are the physical and material surroundings of the event or text (i.e., the city where a speech is delivered or the magazine in which a text is published?)

What other texts (i.e., texts of the same genre, by the same author, written in the same time period, etc.) relate to your text? It is a reaction to these other texts?

Message

what's the message of each piece; How did you decide this? Cite specific details from the pieces in your answers.

Purpose


what purpose is each piece trying to achieve? Cite specific details from the pieces in your answers. 

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