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 ===== Objective =====
-Find out about your birth story and make an argument for what it reveals about the particularities of the time, place, social setting, and cultural context into which you were born.
+Find out about your birth story, reflect on what it was like to hear it, and what this has made you realize about the particularities of the time, place, social setting, and cultural context into which you were born.
 ===== Preparation =====
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 Also, if you are having trouble with the interview or if there is no one you can interview about your own birth, talk to your tutor about an alternative focus for the paper, e.g. an interview with a friend’s mother about their birth.
-===== Grading criteria =====
+## What we would like to see in your reflection
-First off, we will not grade your essay on the content of your birth story. We want to see how well you are able to think about birth (hopefully your own) in terms of its cultural context. Your essay will be graded out of 100 possible points on how it measures up on several different aspects:
+In this writing assignment, we mainly want each student to have the experience of learning about their own birth from someone who was there, and to think about what this tells you about you and your place in your community. Behrmann (2003) offers us very concrete methods you can use to learn about your birth (or another person's birth). There's more than meets the eye. A woman's experience of birth is more than just the facts of what happened, and Behrmann's advice on methods will help you put the facts in a larger context by exploring aspects of the experience.
-  * Do you have a **single, clear claim** about what you conclude from your birth story about the **larger cultural context** in which you were born?
+In your writing, reflect on what it was like to acquire this information in an interview, and what that experience led you to see about the cultural context of your own birth. As Behrmann suggests, pay attention to the details of your interview and be aware of what your birth means to the person who gave birth to you. This will be more than just the facts of the story, and you will have to interpret all the elements of the story and what you observed in the interview process to draw a conclusion about the cultural context in which your birth took place.
-  * Do you use information from your birth story as **evidence** to support a point you make, and your overall claim?
-  * Do you explain the **reasons** why specific information you learned in your birth interview leads you to a larger conclusion?
-  * Do you describe your birth story in **enough descriptive detail** for your reader to understand how you arrive at your conclusion?
-  * Is your prose **clear and readable**?
-  * Are your paragraphs **coherent**, that is, does each focus on one main point or topic?
-  * Is the **order of topics** clear to a reader and does it help lead to your conclusion?
-  * Has the paper been **proofread** for clarity, spelling, and grammar?
-  * If you do refer to other sources, do you have correct in-text citations and a list of references at the end of the essay?
-Longer is not better. Remember that this is an interpretation of a limited (but potentially very revealing) piece of information, and so you only need to make a limited conclusion about one aspect of your culture. Keep within 10% of the word limit, and if you find your first draft is much longer than 1000 words, revise it and ask yourself how much you need to say to support your main claim.
+Longer is not better. Remember that this is an interpretation of a limited (but potentially very revealing) piece of information, and so you only need to make a limited conclusion about one aspect of your culture. Keep within 10% of the word limit, and if you find your first draft is much longer than 1000 words, revise it and ask yourself how much you need to draw out what you think is the most significant aspect of the story.
 ===== Formatting and software requirements =====
-For a description of the required appearance and file format of your essay, see the page [[|Formatting and software requirements]].
+For a description of the required appearance and file format of your essay, see the page [[formatting|Formatting and software requirements]].
 ===== References =====