Basic Paper Requirements:
Papers must be 4-6 typed, double-spaced pages (not counting reference and title page).
Papers must follow APA format (7th edition) and include both a title and reference page. You DO NOT need to include an abstract.
Papers must include at least FIVE relevant concepts or theories from the course materials you’ve read/watched/heard in the class. Make sure these references clear by including a quotation or an in-text citation. Also – be sure to explain how the quotation or idea relates to your artifact.
Papers must follow all of the assignment directions listed below.
Specific Assignment Directions:
Find an cultural text (or if it is short, a combination of texts ) that, in your opinion, highlights an important issue in work/life communication.
An text can be any written or visual text.
Examples of artifacts that could be successfully analyzed for this assignment may include: a movie, documentary, or television show (such as Barbie, The Bear, Ted Lasso, Succession, Severance, Abbott Elementary, Parks and Recreation, Mad Men, Superstore, Office Space)
I want to use the barbie movie as the text and focus my paper on feminism and on the concepts I will attach to this document which are about
(please use this concepts and references
– “Good Working Mothers as Jugglers A Critical Look at Two Work Family Balance Films” *I attached the document
– “How men are hurt by the “ideal worker” norm” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-men-are-hurt-by-the-ideal-worker-norm/
– “The policy exists but you can’t really use it”:
communication and the structuration of work-
family policies ” (This is a paper about how woman are judged about using the maternity leave, I attached it on the page I want the paper to talk about this and feminism and working woman)
The 7 types of rest that every person needs https://ideas.ted.com/the-7-types-of-rest-that-every-person-needs/
also talk about this and the importance of rest for productivity
The Increasing Importance of a Best Friend at Work https://www.gallup.com/workplace/397058/increasing-importance-best-friend-work.aspx
Work–Life Balance (I attached it to the document too)
Conduct a close reading of the text (or texts), and write your essay. Your paper MUST do all of the following:
Describe and analyze the text in detail. Consider both the visual and verbal components of the text.
How do you believe work/life communication is being constructed, maintained, and/or changed through this text?
What class concepts allow you to make these claims about the text?
How does this text matter to the ways we communicate about work and life balance issues (in general, or in talking specifically with people we work with)?
What kinds of changes would you recommend (if any) to its message?
3. Make sure to attach a copy of the text to the paper (or at least a link to where it can be located).
