Women and Religion Summary Assignment

As a way of promoting your understanding and engagement with the material, you will write two (2) 1-page single-space essays at the end of a two of our unit sections. Each essay will be in response to the readings, half summary and half analysis. It is essential that you keep an adequate balance between these two sections.

The essay should be divided into two equal parts:
(I) Write a concise summary of the material from that unit; what was the overarching teaching? What themes do you draw out about the authors’ writings? What is at stake for them? 
(II) Provide an evaluation/critical analysis of the reading/learning and your reflections on it. What did you find helpful, provocative, useful, disturbing, difficult, incomplete, or faulty? Why?
An evaluation such as this is not a statement such as I liked this… or I didnt like that… but rather a thoughtful, reasoned set of judgments about what the author has said and the value of their argument. The evaluation need not be negative, but it must be substantiated refer back to the text with parenthetical page references (15).
Both sections are crucial and of equal importance and should therefore take up an equal part of the paper. Dont use footnotes, but simply indicate page references parenthetically. Make each sentence count since you only have one page. 
Make sure to check your similarity report on Turnitin (remember – don’t plagiarize). 
Unit essays should be:

typed
singlespaced
a standard 12pt. font
with 1 margins all around

P.S. How to  summarize all the material in the Unit?

One way to do it is to think of the readings and the lectures as a whole, as a collection that is teaching you something. So, What are the recurring themes? What do they communicate as a whole?
OR, in terms of the readings, think about the thesis of each piece you read; what are the key theses statements – the new understanding the author wants you to take away?
You may focus on one reading and one lecture more than others, but be sure to somehow touch on them all.  

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