Order Number |
636738393092 |
Type of Project |
ESSAY |
Writer Level |
PHD VERIFIED |
Format |
APA |
Academic Sources |
10 |
Page Count |
3-12 PAGES |
Read two articles’ Chapter#1 below to answer these 7 questions
Name Your Interests
Start with what you consider to be your non-academic interests: hobbies (e.g., knitting or dirt biking), passions (e.g., fashion design or fostering dogs), political commitments (e.g., ending transphobia or protecting free speech), sports (e.g., yoga or watching soccer), and so on. After each, put a short reason as to why it interests you. That is, don’t explain why you enjoy it—explain why it interests you.
List your areas of expertise, your skills or knowledge in various fields, such as cooking, speaking Swahili, sculpting, and carpentry, or accounting, horror movies, disability law, and so on. Include anything that you know deeply or well.
List your disciplines, those branches of knowledge in which you have training, whether at the undergraduate or the graduate student level. You may have just one, or you may be interdisciplinary. For instance, you might list philosophy and literature, or architecture and film, or just anthropology. Provide one or two reasons why that discipline interests you, but also what about that discipline drives you nuts or falls short.
List your academic fields or academic interests, trying to use standardized, searchable academic terms, like “implicit bias,” “17th century Chinese literature,” “natural resource wars,” and so on. List as many as possible. Again, include after each item a short reason why it interests you. If you find that the same reason motivates your interest in different topics, all the better.
List from memory the academic scholarship that made a lasting impression on you, that shaped how you think about the world. You don’t need to do online searches for it or get the title or any quotations exactly right; the point is to write down a little bit about what made it formative. For example, “Guns, Germs, and Steel by Diamond (1999) (an antiracist biological argument for why some regions and peoples are now poorer than others)” or “’Sitting on a Man’ by Van Allen (1972) (about how British colonialism reduced Igbo women’s autonomy and power rather than freeing them from ‘barbarous’ traditional sexism).”
List from memory the academic theories that you found compelling. For instance, “Janice Roadway’s (1984) theory genre reading as a paradoxical social event that both provides an escape from repressive gender roles and reinscribes those gender roles.”
List from memory recent media activity that struck you as particularly interesting or true, such as newspaper articles, blog posts, or Twitter comments.