1 of 2 ASAM 308: Asian American Women, Spring 2018 Final Project Development - Assignment 1: Topic & Methods Due in Class on Tuesday, February 6 To introduce and situate your topic, we will use the form of an Abstract. Abstracts are usually requested by scholarly journals and written after the original manuscript was composed. In this course assignment, we will adapt elements of the abstract to function as a proposal being written before the paper is completed, while retaining the abstract’s ability to present the significance of the proposed topic and enable readers to quickly decide whether or not they want to look at your completed article. While a proposal can be quite long depending on the assignment and purpose, an abstract is generally kept brief. (This assignment asks for approximately 300 words). Elements of an Abstract to include for this Assignment: • A statement of the problem or question, and objectives. / Aims • A summary of methods you will utilize or your research approach. Keep in mind you are required to incorporate both primary and secondary materials for your research. / Method; the next assignment will ask for more developed thinking on this. • The significance of the proposed topic should become clear as well – persuade us why this study is needed and vital for expanding or illuminating our understanding of Asian American Women. / Background and Potential for Discoveries ! The abstract should read as a self-contained piece of writing that can be understood independently from the essay or project. Some samples of research abstracts will be hosted on the Titanium Week 2 module. STRIVE TO ✓ Include a valid thesis in understandable language and follow lucid, persuasive prose. ✓ Provide clear explanations of key terms and keep digressions to a minimum, preferably limited to the footnotes in the manuscript. This assignment is also designed to practice writing abstracts, a format typically required for science journals, and often asked for by social sciences and humanities journals. Pre-writing Questions to Ask Yourself [these are typically posed to nonfiction book proposal authors] 1. Do you have sufficient enthusiasm for a project that will span the whole term? 2. Is your idea different from other books/publications/coverage on the subject? Does the idea spark enthusiasm not just in yourself but others in your field, friends, or prospective readers? 3. Are you willing to acquire any lacking skills, such as, writing style, specific terminology and knowledge on that field for this project? Will it fit into your career and life at the time or will you not have the time to engage in such extensive research? 2 of 2 Thinking of producing an oral history as the key element for your Final Project? As some of you with experience in this research noted on the class survey, ask yourself if you have sufficient time and access to meet your participant? If you ...

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ASAM 308: Asian American Women, Spring 2018
Final Project Development - Assignment 1: Topic & Methods
Due in Class on Tuesday, February 6
To introduce and situate your topic, we will use the form of an
Abstract.
Abstracts are usually requested by scholarly journals and
written after the original manuscript
was composed. In this course assignment, we will adapt
elements of the abstract to function as a
proposal being written before the paper is completed, while
retaining the abstract’s ability to
present the significance of the proposed topic and enable
readers to quickly decide whether or
not they want to look at your completed article. While a
proposal can be quite long depending on
the assignment and purpose, an abstract is generally kept brief.
(This assignment asks for
approximately 300 words).
Elements of an Abstract to include for this Assignment:
• A statement of the problem or question, and objectives. / Aims
• A summary of methods you will utilize or your research
approach. Keep in mind you
are required to incorporate both primary and secondary
materials for your research. /

2. Method; the next assignment will ask for more developed
thinking on this.
• The significance of the proposed topic should become clear as
well – persuade us
why this study is needed and vital for expanding or illuminating
our understanding of
Asian American Women. / Background and Potential for
Discoveries
! The abstract should read as a self-contained piece of writing
that can be understood
independently from the essay or project. Some samples of
research abstracts will be hosted
on the Titanium Week 2 module.
STRIVE TO
✓ Include a valid thesis in understandable language and follow
lucid, persuasive prose.
✓ Provide clear explanations of key terms and keep digressions
to a minimum,
preferably limited to the footnotes in the manuscript.
This assignment is also designed to practice writing abstracts, a
format typically required
for science journals, and often asked for by social sciences and
humanities journals.
Pre-writing Questions to Ask Yourself
[these are typically posed to nonfiction book proposal authors]

3. 1. Do you have sufficient enthusiasm for a project that will span
the whole term?
2. Is your idea different from other books/publications/coverage
on the
subject? Does the idea spark enthusiasm not just in yourself but
others in
your field, friends, or prospective readers?
3. Are you willing to acquire any lacking skills, such as, writing
style, specific
terminology and knowledge on that field for this project? Will it
fit into
your career and life at the time or will you not have the time to
engage in
such extensive research?
2 of 2
Thinking of producing an oral history as the key element for
your Final Project? As
some of you with experience in this research noted on the class
survey, ask yourself if you have
sufficient time and access to meet your participant?
If you wish to utilize oral history as a main component of your
Final Project,
Contact Natalie Navar soon to set up a resource appointment:
Natalie Navar
Archivist
Lawrence de Graaf Center for Oral and Public History (COPH)
California State Univeristy, Fullerton

4. (657) 278-3693
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5. Comment by amanda fox: Your introduction is wordy. Try
to be more direct and precise.
Scholars of many stripes have over the centuries spoken on the
matter of death with most documenting their musings that have
in turn resulted in disputatious debate and reflection for many
people. Death has been viewed to be a seminal topic that has
never been figured out since the dawn of civilization until
today. It goes without saying that various scholars have posited
wisdom and persuasions linking the death to scenarios that are
eschatological by nature while others have documented the
conceptualization that involves death and dying. Numerous
artifacts have been found in ancient ruins with archaeologists
linking them to the pattern that precludes the meaning of life
and death. Different people from the many religions, races, and
cultures all over the world perceive the issue of death
differently. This paper collocate the meaning of death and dying
from the enormous corpus of knowledge that has accumulated
over the years from varying academic and intellectual
perspectives.
Literature
A good number of scholars who address the issue of death and
dying dub it as Thanatology which is a broad reference to the
intertwined, fugitive and broad literature as well as the various
strategies used in the examination of the psychological
dimensions of the death process. Two famous scholars
formulated two theories to explain the death attitudes of elders
namely Carstensen's socio-emotional selectivity theory and the
theory of gerotranscedence by Tornstam (Larson-Miller, 2016).
A contemporary look by Australia 2016 gave us a look into the
issue of death anxiety being a dependent variable which occurs
at the end of the complex variables that are formed from a self

6. or worldview. Most gerontologists have ignored the need to
investigate the differing and unsuspected effects of the
impacting of death attitudes on individuals. He focused on the
grief that engulfs people and how they feel about the issue of
dying. A conceptual framework set forth by (Corr, 2018)
focuses on the moral and legal issues that revolve around death.
The author indicates that it is immoral for a person to take their
own life but it is hypothetically legal for one to have their life
taken away through euthanasia (Larson-Miller, 2016).
Comment by amanda fox: There are many statements in
this paragraph, but I am not sure how they all tie together to
support a main idea. Make sure each paragraph has a main
point and the information supports that. Comment by amanda
fox: If these theories aren’t explained, I am not sure why you
list them here.
Psychology of Death. Death is best defined as the termination or
cessation of any functions of the biological makeup of an
organism (Isaacs, 2015). To effectively address or get death,
many people resort to mourning which is engulfed at times by
melancholia. People tend to mythologize or formulate stories
out of splinters from the experiences shared with the dead thus
transforming them into an imagine integrity. The process of
dying is normally a process that is felt and described by the
people involved in it. The basics of the dying experience tend to
vary in nature and number with some including the nature of the
disease, the treatment environment, the gender and interpersonal
relations or even the age of the individual. In some cases where
gender influences death, most men tend to think of the financial
provisions they are going to live for their family while women
tend to be concerned on the integrity of the family. People who
have had a tad bit of low experience in their interpersonal
experiences tend to show great distress while dying compared to
those who have had good interpersonal relationships (Australia,
2016). Comment by amanda fox: Further explanation needed
Comment by amanda fox: This seems to be a different
topic than what you started out with in this paragraph. Is this

7. paragraph about the process of death or the coping with death?
Comment by amanda fox: What does it mean to have a low
experience? Comment by amanda fox: In what way?
The ethical and legal issues that surround suicide have been
highlighted in many scholarly articles. Most people aligned to
suicide argue that its morality is based on a person who is both
ration and competent in the making of their own decisions, so
they are able to understand the recurring effect of their actions
(Corr, (2018).). Many times, people have to distinguish the
objective and subjective features of suicide wherein even if a
person commits suicide due to stress, they are objectively
wrong, but they cannot be blamed. This goes out to be termed as
an excusable serious and devious mistake. Euthanasia, on the
other hand, is the process through which a physician
administers a drug to a patient which results in unconsciousness
then death. Euthanasia has been justified by most Thanatology
articles with the basis being drawn on the fact that it helps
relieve a sick person from their endless suffering. Opponents to
Euthanasia cite the act of murder as they perceive it as a means
of containing the cost of healthcare and that it goes against the
values and rights of an individual. The argument against
euthanasia focus on the respect meted on human dignity through
the searching for solutions that contain cost rather than killing
the patients (Corr, (2018).). Comment by amanda fox: You
will need to work on the flow and organization of your paper. I
am having trouble following your thoughts and there is not
transition between ideas. Your paper would be improved if you
took out the information about suicide, euthanasia, and focus in
more detail on the interpretations and coping with dying as you
mention in the beginning and end of your paper.
It is of great importance that every individual acknowledges
that one day they are going to die. The occurrence of death can
never be viewed to be premature as it is key in the process of
natural selection and evolution. The ever-changing nature of life
and the world always stand by one rule which indicates that the
fit species always end up surviving while the moderate and

8. weak species die. In the case that natural selection does not take
its course, then it is evident that mutations tend to shape the
mortality age pattern (Isaacs, 2015).
As noted in the opening tenet of this paper, many cultures have
specific interpretations of death and dying as they tend to
connect the two to the prevalent conceptions of one’s soul and
body. Due to its psychological grasp on its adherents, religion
has over time attached death to a particular event and the
condition that follows after. Being aware of one’s mortality
pushes most people to believe in a worldview that supports the
denial of one’s mortality through the establishment of a façade
of eternal life (Larson-Miller, 2016). Believers ascribed to a
certain religion tend to be hopeful believing that it is the will of
God for one to die thereby indicating the scaffold of spiritual
understanding.
Conclusion.Death is an inevitable occurrence in life that
remains to be an unraveled mystery. It demands an explanation,
but it should not stop anybody from living honestly without any
fear of favor. Tackling death involves the making of any
financial and legal arrangements while ensuring that one
maintains good interpersonal relationships with both their
families and friends. Effectively understanding the rituals that
accompany death in one's religion or culture will also help
mentally prepare for the occurrence of death and the process of
grieving.

9. References
Australia, H. Death and dying. 2016.
Corr, C. A., Corr, D. M., & Doka, K. J. Death and Dying.
(2018).
Isaacs, D. "Death and dying." Journal of pediatrics and child
health (2015): 569-570.
Larson-Miller, L. "Death and dying.." The Study of Liturgy and
Worship: An Alcuin Guide (2016).
Your paper about death and dying is a great start. You found
interesting research, but I had trouble following your paper.
You need to work on focusing your ideas and synthesizing your
ideas. Many parts of your paper are wordy as well. Try to be
more precise and concise with your main points. Please review
my comments directly on your paper (attached).