Rough Draft In Class Lab

1. My Topic is about the portrayal, techniques, and consequences of gender roles in the media.
2. The lager subject area was gender roles in the media.
3. After looking at what research was available, I decided what I wanted to use and thus narrowed my topic.
4. I used Google as just a rough starting point. From there I went to Google Scholar, JSTOR, and the online School Library.
5. The main though processes I found in my research was the actual portrayal of gender roles, the techniques used, and the effects these two things had on the viewers. The authors of the papers I am working with are saying that the portrayals are a negative thing because of the impact they have over society as a whole. That goes for the main arguments as well. There aren't really any main voices or groups for this particular field of study. There are a lot of studies by various foundations and schools.
6. No, my draft is not up to 2500 words yet because I haven't yet finished typing the whole thing out. I have done my Intro paragraph and that comes out to about 700 words so I have about 2000 more to go.