Although the articles I've read were "longest" ones, I truly appreciate their works because those helped me learn a lot about various ways to structure a thesis and also how they approached ideas of how to begin a research paper. Not only that, but they also helped me to get an idea of how to begin one regarding Eleanor Roosevelt and her program -- the Prospects of Mankind that consists of the monthly series of the forum for prominent leaders and decision makers to discuss the issues with Eleanor as mediator and host. Therefore, there are two particular examples of "What We Talk About When We Talk About Food" and "Eavesdropping at the Well" whose authors showed how they have molded the structures such as the research question, methodology, type of evidence, conclusion, etc.
1) In "What We Talk About When We Talk About Food," I liked how Adam Steinberg introduced a brief but interesting abstract based on food, and then he would dive into the narrative story of how food are used to tell stories of the immigrants and their struggles to adapt in new surrounds. It was a brilliant move for him to begin without giving any hint of boredness or passive voice. 2) Richard Rabinowitz in "Eavesdropping at the Well" and his writing style surprised and impressed me because, while he focused on the deployment of interpretive media as well as the parallel of the sequence of media elements and the historical narrative, he apparently made sure to clarify his goals, so we could understand what he was talking about. When I read his article, I realized this should be difficult to put off like that, but he managed to construct the topics into the pattern.
1) Adam Steinberg, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Food: Using Food to Teach at the Tenement Museum,” The Public Historian (2012)
2) Richard Rabinwitz, Eavesdropping a the Well: Interpreting Media and Slavery In New York Exhibition, The Public Historian August (2013)
Interesting perspective you have on Rabinwit article even though it was a long article to read.
ReplyDelete