Other sources

In your analytical essay, you must include references to at least two other sources. One of them is the video “As gender roles change, are men out of step?” which is already included in the exam material. The other is a source you have to find on the internet yourself. In this section, we show you how you can use the included source and how you can find and include a text from the internet.…

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As gender roles change, are men out of step?

“As gender roles change, are men out of step?” is a CBS News video from 2010, which presents opinions related to young men’s poor performance in college.

The Dean of Kenyon College, Ohio, published an article a few years previously in which she showed that boys perform less well academically than girls. Interviewed in the video, she argues that gender politics is a reality. She claims that young men today are anti-intellectualism; that they do not enroll an…

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Text from the internet

In this type of exam, you must include 1-2 other sources from the internet. We recommend that you should settle on just finding one. Be careful that finding additional sources does not take up too much time: analyzing the main text should be your main focus.

You can use Google to find texts that deal with the topic. We recommend you find a blog post or an article from a reputable online news outlet that is not too long or complicated. Maybe you can even find a relevant link from one of the texts that are already in the exam material.

Remember to add a precise link to the source in a footnote in your paper, like we have done on this page.

Boys 'twice as likely to fall behind girls' in early years

One internet source that you can use in your analytical essay is th…