FEMSLASH FANFICTION AND LESBIANISM: EFFORTS TO EMPOWER AND EXPRESS ASIAN AMERICAN WOMAN SEXUALITY

The existence of fan fiction nowadays shows more progressive development especially in this digital era when people does not only use internet for communicating and socializing across time and space but they also show their creativity, one of them is by writing a fan fiction. By writing fan fiction in online platforms, people get the opportunity to express their interests and their identities. This opportunity is also obtained by minority groups such as LGBTQ+ where they can express their identity through fan fiction. LGBTQ+ community utilizes online platform as the tool that brings benefit for them. In this case, writing fan fiction in online platforms allows people to create the preferable representation of minority groups and empower them as the part of LGBTQ+ community. This phenomenon can be seen through a website named Asianfanfics.com which shows an increasing number of fan fictions especially the ones with lesbian related tags such as girl x girl, lesbian, and femslash. Particularly, through the femslash subgenre, people use fan fiction to question the heteronormativity. Regarding to this phenomenon, an interview was conducted by choosing three Asian American fan fiction writers from Asianfanfics.com as the interviewees. Furthermore, by using gender theory and intersectionality, this article focuses on how fan fiction becomes a safe space to express their sexual identities and how lesbian relationship is viewed by Asian families.

Introduction

This article provides context for three studies about early 20th-century medical cases in the geographically distributed humanitarian aid organization founded by Wilfred Grenfell in pre-Confederation Newfoundland and Labrador. It situates these studies within historiographical and theoretical approaches to case histories and their publication by medical practitioners, the background for research on the clinical records of the Grenfell organization’s main hospital, and the history behind specific case information for coastal patients. While the cases examined cohere through their organizational origin, the authors of these three studies reveal sometimes unexpected representations of the patient in text and illustration. In these ways, both this introductory article and the following three studies emphasize the enduring appeal of narrative approaches to case writing while also pointing to the evolving ethics of publishing medical reports for general readers and scholars. Together they invite renewed attention to the representation of medical cases in publications that increasingly are available globally in internet collections.

A STUDY OF SCRAMBLE METHOD IN TEACHING ENGLISH FOR SECONDARY STUDENT’S WRITING SKILL

In Indonesia secondary school, students are equipped with any English subject to arrange their own writing. In this case, writing is the one of difficult English skill for students. Because of that, to increase students writing skill teacher need a certain method in teaching writing. Based on student’s ability in writing that also suitable with their grades, they were difficult to arrange the sentence to be good paragraph. To solve these problem several teachers had applied a method that called scramble sentence method. This study used qualitative research method with concept analysis method or library research. The data of this study came from eight articles related about scramble method to secondary student’s writing skill. Data had analyzed from reading, reviewing, supporting and contra journal article and concluding. As the result, according to eight articles, the researcher found that scramble method was effective to increased student’s writing skill. Based on the implementation of each articles, scramble method helped students to write. It proven by the improvement of several writing aspects, such as topic sentence, supporting sentence, coherence, organization, generic structures, grammar, vocabulary, content, discourse, syntax, mechanic and language use. From the analysis, the research question of this study had answered. Keyword : Scramble method, writing, library research

Perspectives of the Asian Standardised Patient

Introduction: Standardised patients (SPs) have been involved in medical education for the past 50 years. Their role has evolved from assisting in history-taking and communication skills to portraying abnormal physical signs and hybrid simulations. This increases exposure of their physical and psychological domains to the learner. Asian SPs who come from more conservative cultures may be inhibited in some respect. This study aims to explore the attitudes and perspectives of Asian SPs with respect to their role and case portrayal. Methods: This was a cohort questionnaire study of SPs involved in a high-stakes assessment activity at a university medical school in Singapore. Results: 66 out of 71 SPs responded. Racial distribution was similar to population norms in Singapore (67% Chinese, 21% Malay, 8% Indian). SPs were very keen to provide feedback to students. A significant number were uncomfortable with portraying mental disorders (26%) or terminal illness (16%) and discussing Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS, 14%) or Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs, 14%). SPs were uncomfortable with intimate examinations involving the front of the chest (46%, excluding breast), and even abdominal examination (35%). SPs perceive that they improve quality of teaching and are cost effective. Conclusion: The Asian SPs in our institution see themselves as a valuable tool in medical education. Sensitivity to the cultural background of SPs in case writing and the training process is necessary to ensure that SPs are comfortable with their role. Additional training and graded exposure may be necessary for challenging scenarios and physical examination.

Periodical amnesia and dédoublement in case-reasoning: Writing psychological cases in late 19th-century France

The psychoanalytical case history was in many ways the pivot point of John Forrester’s reflections on case-based reasoning. Yet the Freudian case is not without its own textual forebears. This article closely analyses texts from two earlier case-writing traditions in order to elucidate some of the negotiations by which the case history as a textual form came to articulate the mode of reasoning that we now call ‘thinking in cases’. It reads Eugène Azam’s 1876 observation of Félida X and her ‘double personality’—the case that brought both Azam and Félida to prominence in late 19th-century French science—against a medico-surgical case penned by the Bordeaux physician in the same decade. While the stylistics of Azam’s medical case mirror its epistemic underpinnings in the ‘vertical’ logics of positivist science, the multiple narratives interwoven in Félida’s case grant both Azam and his patient the role of knowledge-making actors in the text. This narrative transformation chimes with the way Azam reasons ‘horizontally’ from particulars to Félida’s singular condition, but sits in tension with his choice to structure the observation along a ‘vertical’ axis. Between the two, we glimpse the emergence of the psychological observation as a mode of writing and thus of thinking in cases.

Developing a Case Writing Club to Create Local Cases in a Private University in Puebla, Mexico

In a business school in Puebla, Mexico, numerous methodologies were introduced to create a more active learning environment as part of the new educational model. One of such methodologies was the use of case studies. Initially, cases were bought from different case centers, and/or adapted from books, which was costly and did not necessarily help students from rural communities and small villages understand the reality that businesses in the region were facing. An initiative was established to develop a writing group integrated by faculty members. Integration was fast and smooth, and the initiative turned into a writing club that produced case studies based on local businesses and businessmen, and specialized in rural and marginalized communities that have developed different entrepreneurial projects. The process in which the group was organized and the methods used to promote collaborative writing are described including the tricks of the trade of the group, which in only two years has created a repository of over 50 cases. The cases will be published as a book in 2019.

Writing the Case Study

The chapter covers the rudiments of writing a case study and the teaching notes or instructor's manual. While the chapter focuses on business cases for publication in top-tiered journals, examples of how these standards may be relaxed for lower-tiered journals, conference papers, and other peer-evaluated research outlets is also given. The author is currently associate editor of one case journal and editor of another and has taught case writing around the globe. While rooted in the methods of the North American Case Research Association this article incorporates ideas from the Harvard, Ivey, and other case study publishers.