{"id":40,"date":"2023-09-14T16:58:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T16:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/ppg\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=40"},"modified":"2024-09-17T15:50:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T15:50:58","slug":"ppg_pr","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/ppg\/chapter\/ppg_pr\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release: Politics of Protest &amp; Gender Edition"},"content":{"raw":"<h1><a style=\"text-align: center;font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif;font-size: 14pt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebluediamondgallery.com\/typewriter\/images\/press-release.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebluediamondgallery.com\/typewriter\/images\/press-release.jpg\" alt=\"Close up of typewriter with &quot;Press Release&quot; on the page\" width=\"1200\" height=\"802\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\r\n\"Press Release\" by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images\r\n\r\nThis press release assignment is a planning assignment for the <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/ppg\/chapter\/ppgproject\/\">Digital Humanities Project<\/a> and is part of your historiography research. You will use it as a stepping stone to your secondary source research and take a deep dive into one of your main sources for the case study project.\r\n<h2>Instructions<\/h2>\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>Choose a secondary source or work(s) by a specific scholar had a significant impact on the scholarship about your topic. For example, Joan Wallach Scott's pioneering 1986 article, \"Gender as a Useful Category of Analysis\" in the <em>American Historical Review.<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t<li>Write a press release around 500-800 words (notes not included). You may use any formats supported by Pressbooks and H5P. See this \"<a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/ppgsed24\/chapter\/chapter-1\/\">Guide to Creating a Press Release on Pressbooks<\/a>\" for technical instructions.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Include your analysis of why this scholar and\/or publication is important to the subdiscipline of protest history &amp; which other subdiscipline(s) (or disciplines) it belongs to. Pitch it to a general audience.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Be sure to include the elements in the blue box in your press release and remember the sourcing and historical thinking skills outlined by the Stanford History Education Group at <a href=\"https:\/\/sheg.stanford.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/download-pdf\/Historical%20Thinking%20Chart.pdf\">SHEG Chart<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nInspiration for this assignment came from concluding comments by historian David Perry in <em>Drafting the Past\u00a0<\/em>Episode 10, \"<a href=\"https:\/\/draftingthepast.com\/podcast-episodes\/episode-10-david-m-perry-writes-out-loud\/\">David M. Perry Writes Out Loud.<\/a>\"\r\n<div class=\"textbox textbox--exercises\"><header class=\"textbox__header\">\r\n<h2 class=\"textbox__title\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">Elements of a Press Release<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<\/header>\r\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\r\n<h2>Elements of Your Finished Press Release<\/h2>\r\nInclude the following sections in your press release:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Sourcing of the author<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Historiography Connections<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Geographic Coverage (if appropriate)<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Citation for First Edition\/Printing (Chicago Style)<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Press Release (the analytical text of the press release, or the video and transcript, 500-800 words)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Sample formats for your press release<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Written\/Journalistic Style: <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/historicalstudiesstudentresearch\/chapter\/rosepr\/\">https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/historicalstudiesstudentresearch\/chapter\/rosepr\/<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li>Video Clip: See this clip with Kenn Michael on\u00a0<em>Reading Rainbow<\/em> giving an overview of <em>Jumanji\u00a0<\/em>for inspiration:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MQG6AR5diPw\"> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MQG6AR5diPw<\/a>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Note: if you create a video you will need to be sure to have closed captioning and a transcript to post on your page with the video. 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You will use it as a stepping stone to your secondary source research and take a deep dive into one of your main sources for the case study project.<\/p>\n<h2>Instructions<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Choose a secondary source or work(s) by a specific scholar had a significant impact on the scholarship about your topic. For example, Joan Wallach Scott&#8217;s pioneering 1986 article, &#8220;Gender as a Useful Category of Analysis&#8221; in the <em>American Historical Review.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Write a press release around 500-800 words (notes not included). You may use any formats supported by Pressbooks and H5P. See this &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/ppgsed24\/chapter\/chapter-1\/\">Guide to Creating a Press Release on Pressbooks<\/a>&#8221; for technical instructions.<\/li>\n<li>Include your analysis of why this scholar and\/or publication is important to the subdiscipline of protest history &amp; which other subdiscipline(s) (or disciplines) it belongs to. 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