Writing Homework Help

In your final paper, I want you to use your own life story as a “case study.” I want you to examine deep, meaningful parts of yourself and your life story – what do you want, how have you changed, what is meaningful now, and so on, and I want you to write up a coherent narrative about part of your life story.

However, I don’t just want you to tell your story. I want you to analyze it through the use of the theories we have discussed. I want you to make sense of your life not as just you but as part of a larger social system, thinking about what was/is at stake for you. Depending on what stands out to you in your own story, you will choose a theory to discuss it.

For example, is a critical part of your story immigration, an unimagined childhood, peer pressure, student mothering? Should you think about your life using feminist or critical race theory? How might the theory of cultural/social capital help you make sense of your job or the career and college degree you want?

Your paper should be a story/narrative with citations using 3 theories from class. It is also a complete paper, written with an introduction and conclusion.