Position Essay on Student Source Use in the Academy

1. What are your ideas for your Research Topic inspired by Jacqueline Woodson’s Another

Brooklyn?

Women’s Rights Movement and how Mary Tyler Moore (The Show) helped.

2. Why are you interested in this research? What does it matter to you?

Women’s Rights is an interesting topic for me I’ve always been interested in this particular topic.

I don’t have a specific reason, but maybe because of the lack of women’s rights in the Middle

East.

3. What is the purpose of your research? What question(s) do you want to answer?

The purpose of this research is to show women’s power and inspire other. The questions I’d like

to answer are:

-When and how did the movement started?

-Who started it?

-How did Mary Tyler Moore helped (The Show) changed women perspective about themselves?

-How did it change the US?

-What rights did women accomplished?

-How is it different from now?

4. What are the key words you will use to research your topic? List the words:

-Women’s Rights Movement

-Mary Tyler Moore

-Women’s rights

5. What is your working thesis?

Women’s rights movement is important because it promotes women engagement in political

affairs, sensitizes on social relations and promotes gender equality.

6. What ‘Pattern of Organization’ do you envision as best-suited for your paper? (Note

these ‘Pattern of Organization’ for your research will also be reviewed in class)

Problem and solution.

7. What are likely sources of information (peer-reviewed academic journals, major general

interest newspaper geared toward college educated audience include: New York Times,

Washington Post, Bloomberg Business, Time Magazine, TRADE Publications focused

on

your filed? LIST AT LEAST THREE sources, include data and author or authority:

● Baxter, Judith. ​Positioning Gender In Discourse​. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

● Hollows, Joanne. ​Feminism, Femininity, And Popular Culture ​. : Manchester University

Press., 2000.

● Klein, Allison. ​What Would Murphy Brown Do? ​. Seal Press, 2006.

● Porizkova, Paulina. "America Made Me A Feminist." ​The New York Times ​, 2017,

Accessed 15 Nov 2018.

8. What are your concerns (personal and/or professional) as you approach this project?

The key personal concerns are;

Is the government doing enough towards the women’s rights movement sustainability?

Are women engaged in these movements as much as they should?

What is the role of institutions in fostering women rights?