Encoding Presidential Gender Assignment

Prompt

Compare and contrast the Time Magazine covers of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden

Write a 3 to 4 page paper in which you explain how the elements of these covers work to convey information about Mr. Trump, Mr. Biden and the American Presidency.

How to complete this assignment:

Analysis stage

First make sure that you are analyzing the images. This assignment is not about how your feel about either of the men in the assignment.

Look carefully at each of the images. Take in the overall impression – what do you think the image trying to communicate?

（Somethings）which will help you focus your attention on the details of each cover. Now carefully go over each element in each cover, as suggested in the handout, looking carefully at how the magazine covers produce knowledge about Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden and the American Presidency.

Write up stage

Format Requirements

Your paper must include the following sections AND each section must be clearly marked

Introduction

Explain what you will be doing in the essay and capture your reader’s interest, state your thesis for the essay.

Theory

In this section make reference to the information on meaning making from your textbook, from the lecture and form the Codes of Gender film. How does meaning making occur? What might these theories of meaning making suggest one is likely to find in analyzing the Time magazine covers

Description

In this section describe each magazine cover separately. Use evidence from your desconstruction of each cover to . Write clearly. Write in such a way that a reader who has not seen the covers will get an image of the covers in their mind.

Analysis

This is the most important part of your paper. In this section respond to/answer the prompts. Be sure to make direct reference to examples that you have found in the magazine covers. When referencing examples be sure to be specific.

Conclusion

In this section briefly summarize your findings, and, present your conclusions about the magazine covers. What do these covers communicate to people about the two gentlemen and the American Presidency?

Your paper MUST be compatible with Microsoft Word (you don’t need Microsoft Word, it must just be readable by Microsoft Word – for example Pages often is not).

Typed, double-spaced,12-point font three pages

Include page numbers at the bottom of the page

Use one-inch margins

Include a reference list and correctly use APA citation format for all citations (the reference list is not included in the three pages)

You MUST save and upload your paper using the following convention Last name First name Encoding Presidential Gender 2020

So if Robyn Fenty was in our class her assignment would be saved in the following manner: Fenty Robyn Encoding Presidential Gender2020