The American Library Association (ALA) awards the Newbery medal for adolescent fiction. For this exercise, you will use the ALA website (www.ala.org) to answer questions about the gender of characters in Newbery winners and honor books over the last decade.
You are asked to do a content analysis:
First, Find a list of Newbery award winners and honor books for the last 10 years.
Begin your content analysis of the titles of these books by listing the titles that suggest to you that there is a female character in the book.
Now list the titles that suggests to you there is a male character in the book.
Titles may fall into more than one category.
What are you able to tell about gender in adolescent fiction? What conclusions can you draw from your analysis? Are there any other variable that could be useful for analysis
Purdue University writing center has produced an number of great pieces about the writing process. Here I've included the link to Proofreading. If you do not have this skill perfected (few of us do) you should really read this piece.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/561/01/
The American Library Association (ALA) awards the Newbery medal for adlescent fiction. For this exercise, you will use the ALA website (www.ala.org) to answer questions about the gender of characters in Newbery winners and honor books over the last decade.
Find a list of Newbery award winners and honor books for the last 10 years.
Begin your content analysis of the titles of these books by listing the titles that suggest to you that there is a female character in the book.
Now list the titles that suggests to you there is a male character in the book.
Titles may fall into more than one category.
What are you able to tell about gender in adolescent fiction? What conclusions can you draw from your analysis? Are there any other variable that could be useful for analysis
http://www.ala.org
A good oral presentation will cover these points.
An Introduction to the topic
The research question and/or hypothesis
A brief discussion of the relevant literature: how was the literature review
organized.
A discussion of the methods they will use to answer their
questions.
a conclusion including a discussion of the problems faced in
working on this project.