The topic of women’s
rights and gender equality has been a passion of mine for quite some time now. Since
many of the articles we covered this semester dealt with discrimination and hardship
in general, I decided I would do my paper on that, but more specifically on
women. In another one of my classes this summer I was assigned to research a
lot of information on gender inequality on politics, so I already had a solid
base to start writing this paper. While reading the rubric of this assignment,
I realized that personal stories were welcomed and almost necessary to keep the
paper interesting and to help reach the amount of pages we were required to
write. Thinking back to what I could use to help support my stories, it dawned
on me that I have actually experienced a lot of sexism in my life. I had not
really thought I had, coming from a strong household and parents who had raised
me to be just as strong and confident, I thought that by being that way I had avoided
a lot of the bias. I also grew up very sheltered, so I was exposed to many
things; I figured a lot of the sexism wasn’t occurring because of that reason
as well. There were multiple other stories that I thought of and didn’t include
because it wasn’t needed for the assignment, but it still got me thinking about
how much of a problem this really is. I am sure because of my situation growing
up I did not experience as much discrimination as I could have, but not
everyone is so fortunate.
I wrote my paper for two categories of people; ones who
have experienced this, so that they can relate and feel less alone in their
battle, and for the people who don’t know or care that this is happening, so
maybe after reading actual stories that are coming from a regular girl, rather
than some spokeswomen on TV or from news articles or protestors they can
realize how real this is. In both situations, I hope to create a sense of
urgency and motivation to help fight this problem. I find this so important for
so many issues. By having equal opportunities for men and women there are more
chances of learning and being successful; rather than taking one gender’s top
people to solve an issue or problem, take both so then there is double the
chance of finding great things.
Throughout this course, I have written multiple different
assignments. I am very familiar with academic writing, when you need to do
research and create a thesis and everything else that goes into a professional
paper, however, with this assignment; I was introduced to something I had never
seen before. I never got many opportunities to write personal stories in general,
but after finding out that this was a personal narrative, I was unprepared. I
knew how to write formally, but how do you write a non-thesis based paper?
Having required meetings with our writing professor was found to be an
advantage; asking for help was the way I was able to get general knowledge on
how to write this paper. Another new idea to me was how we are supposed to turn
this paper in. Creating an E-Portfolio was the task that went along with this
paper. For our final project, we were told to write this paper and then create
a blog to feature it on. The E-Portfolio really appealed to my creative side; I
was able to change the background colors, mess with the design of the page, and
do many other things to help make this blog mine.
At the beginning of this class, I felt like I had decent
writing abilities. Throughout these seven-eight weeks, I realized I did have
decent writing abilities in professional writing, but I didn’t know there were
other kinds of writing that would be assigned in college. This class was able
to teach me the more creative side to writing while keeping it academic.
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