Name of the class: Sexuality and Sex Roles in Transnational Perspective
Reading Response Guidelines
MAKE SURE YOU READ THIS ARTICLE, IN ORDER TO DO THE REQUIREMENTS BELOW: Article with the name: Deborah Pruitt and Suzanne LaFont. For Love and Money: Romance Tourism in Jamaica.
The minimum length requirement for the reading response is at least, 1 page in MS Word, double spaced; 12 pt Time New Roman. Try to write a concise and meaningful response of about this size. The substantial amount of text, that I request, should be dense and thorough.
Here is one important thing for you to keep in mind: please do structure your responses properly. It can't be one chunk of text - it needs to have structure, and dividing your text into logical paragraphs is an important part of structure. This is a writing intensive class, and it's essential that students structure their writing appropriately.
The responses should address the following questions:
1. What is the author’s main argument (or arguments);
2. What evidence does the author give to support the argument(s);
3. How does this article relate to your own life and experience?
Make sure to understand what the author's main argument is. If you read inattentively, you might have misinterpreted the real message. Make sure who the viewpoint belongs to: the author or his/her subjects?
If you make general statements, go beyond them and explain what you mean by using this or that concept or term. Example: "people's nature is the same around the globe". What do you mean by that? Same in what way? What do you mean by nature?
Your responses are graded. In this course, reading responses are one of the most important factors on which your final grade depends. I can't grade a short response: there just isn't enough information for me, as I can't see how much of the text you read and how well you understood the contents, not to mention the quality of analytic work in short responses.
The response should be well structured. Don't just offer a chaos of your thoughts. Make a plan and think carefully, what ideas will come first and how the response will logically unfold and end with conclusion. Good style of writing will be a plus as well.
Skipping the details of the readings, go directly to the main point. Make your own analytic observations and conclusions based on the evidence the author used, the author's ideas and your own experience.
In this class we study sexuality from cultural anthropological perspective. Anthropologists study culture and the ways it is organized. Based on the many accounts we will be reading, make a goal to understand the mechanisms and logic of particular cultures and draw connections between social institutions and cultural practices throughout history and nowadays.
Please use AAA format for this paper. I sent you a PDF file with the AAA style-guide please do it according in my paper.
This is the information about the reading article:
Sexuality and Globalization
Pruitt, Deborah and Suzanne LaFont
2002 “For Love and Money: Romance Tourism in Jamaica”, in Constructing Sexualities: Readings in Sexuality, Gender, and Culture. Suzanne LaFont, ed. Pp. 304-317. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.