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This 6-page paper is a tutorial that demonstrates to the student writer how to compose a vignette that describes her life as a woman, and when she became aware of the gender differences. The paper its self examines an actual vignette suggests ways in which this vignette could fit into the original assignment, which stressed observation and recording over actual feelings. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_MTgenvig.rtf
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particular assignment, the student was asked to write about a vignette or episode from her life as a female -- with the vignette focusing on an event or situation in
childhood that made her aware of for difference as a girl. Also indicated in the assignment was that the writer describe things in great detail. Although such an
assignment is highly personalized, there are some steps the writer can take to help fulfill this assignment. For example, the writer can
focus on classroom teaching -- studies continue to prove a subtle gender bias when it comes to teaching (DeCosta, 1992). These same studies indicate that male and female teachers
in the classroom responded differently to boys and girls (DeCosta, 1992). Perhaps the writer can focus on a specific experience in which she felt she was talked down to
in a math class -- because the teacher might have had an inherent bias about girls knowing math. There is much that can be done in descriptive detail, such
as what the classroom looked like, perhaps the smell of chalk dust, the tone of the teachers voice (Was it kind? Condescending? Angry?) and perhaps her own feelings,
which could include shame, confusion, or the desire to prove the math teachers assumptions as false. Even today, with equal rights being so strong, experts will leave that too
many girls continue to be slotted into traditional female professions, while boys are encouraged and directed toward more technological fields (DeCosta, 1992). With this in mind, the writer who
might choose to make the above-referenced math class as an example, could support this statement by outlining her own experiences in the classroom.
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