Decentering Citizenship GENDER, LABOR, AND MIGRANT RIGHTS IN SOUTH
Students are required to write a paper based on the book Decentering Citizenship. Here, students must write about the scholarly contribution of the book, with equal space allocated to considering its contribution to (1) theory and (2) methods.
Students are encouraged to write about what the author describes as her goal in writing the book and how those goals are achieved in the text.
(1) Begin the paper with a brief statement.”This paper describes how [insert your own words here] and [insert your own words here] are significant scholarly contributions of Decentering Citizenship”
(2) Then jump in to describing these contributions in greater detail.
(3) Theory refers to the concepts, tools, and ideas sociologists develop in order to explain a phenomenon in the social world.
(4) Proofread essay and make sure citations, in-text citations and quotes are good. Uploaded as a Microsoft Word file. Follow instructions carefully to gain good marks.
(5) Methods refer to “what” data sociologists collect and “how” they do so.
(6) When you are describing a contribution, make sure to draw on examples from the text. You can paraphrase an anecdote from the text or use a direct quote. In either case, make sure that you put the page number that the information is found on into parentheses. For example: (148). Warning: do not just cut and paste huge chunks of the book into your paper in order to meet the word count. Use material from the book judiciously.
(7) Spend a roughly equal amount of space in your paper on theory and methods.
(8) The last two sentences of your paper should be something like: “In conclusion, this paper has described the significant scholarly contributions of the book to be [insert your own words here] and [insert your own words here]. Future research would do well to [insert your own words here].”
(9) If you do not meet the word count, that is a problem.
(10) Standard formatting is appreciated. Microsoft Word, 12 point Times New Roman, 1″ margins on all sides. Single, 1.5 or double-spaced is fine.
