Also see: D&T Reading, Watching, Listening for class books and articles.
Cultural Competency Guides
As you prepare your paper, please use the appropriate style guides to standardize and justify how you describe minority and marginalized groups.
- Protected Classes (a.k.a. Protected Identities) defined by the laws of:
- Essential Style Guides for writing about marginalized populations
- APA Inclusive Language Guidelines
- APA 7, Bias-Free Language Guidelines (See the full chapter here).
- MLA Guide to Inclusive Language (NYU login required; summary here)
- Diversity Style Guides for various protected (from SFSU Journalism School). This includes guides on race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, disability/ability, mental health, religion, and more.
- Also note the menu on “Topic Glossaries“
- Dart Guide for Trauma-Informed Journalism
- Additional Trainings
- NYU One Zone trainings, including trainings on advocacy and allyship for marginalized racial/ethnic, gender/sexuality, immigrant, disability, and religious groups.
- Prof D’s training on LGBTQ+ concepts and terms, prepared for United Auto Workers (UAW) Region 9A. The 23-minute training is from 08:30 to 30:00.
- Additional Identities
- Prison populations & justice-involved communities:
- Global socioeconomic status (SES):
- If You Shouldn’t Call It The Third World, What Should You Call It? (NPR)
- Third World Definition – investopedia.com
- The World by Income and Region (World Bank) – with animation!
- World Development Report 2021 (World Bank)
- UN Human Development Reports (multidimensional)
- Additional Style Guides
- U of Maryland Citation Justice Guide
- Cal State Diversity/Inclusivity Style Guide
- Study.com DEI Style Guide
Positionality and Theory
- Positionality (NYU login required): building on your background, engineering major & interests
- Class exercise: Speak Your Truth, Check Your Privilege
- See also: APA Inclusive Language Guidelines
- Related scholarly techniques: Reflexivity (thematic analysis), Subjectivity Statement, Autoethnography
- Recommended Method: Critical Literary Theory
- Why use the critical literary theoretical approach?
- Flexible, unstructured, can include other methodologies, doesn’t require additional data collection or structured analysis
- I like the broadness of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature (NYU login required); it draws on fields outside of English lit and American lit. Please use this resource to explore and choose at least one
- Specific theories
- Theoretical areas
- Note that intersectionality is discussed in other Oxford Research Encyclopedias as well.
- Other methods: Sage Methods Map (NYU login required)
- Qualitative Analysis (NYU login required)
- Why use the critical literary theoretical approach?
General Research Guides
- Types of Research Papers (Purdue Univ. OWL)
- Argumentative or Analytical (Purdue Univ. OWL)
- Lit Review or Experimental / Research Report (Purdue Univ. OWL)
- Types of Research Designs
- Types of Research Designs (Sacred Heart Univ.)
- Types of Research Designs (USC)
- The Selection of a Research Design (Sage Publications)
- APA Style and Grammar Guidelines
- NYU Libraries Research Guides
- Finding stats for your “Problem / Significance” section: NYU Data Sources and ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
- NYU: Capstone Project Guide
- Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)
- UCLA: types of literature reviews
Templates/Resources for your Papers (by Prof)
- Checklist: Cultural Competencies
- Paper Template 2023
- Midterm Project Gradesheet