While previous scholarship gener-ally considers audiences’ reactions to the representations of scientists and ex-perts within non-fiction programming, the scholarship on their representations in fiction programming garners a little more depth of inquiry.
Fiction representation of scientists has to be more in depth
Scientists of all types—doctors, fo-rensics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, and others—appear regularly throughout television programming.
Different types of scientists appear throughout tv programming.
The Big Bang Theory offers a unique moment to explore the representations of female scientists within the situa-tion comedy
BBT offers to explore the representation of female scientists in a sit-com
Starting with the third and fourth sea-sons, The Big Bang Theory introduced more regular female characters as love interests for the main characters.
BBT introduced female characters in the season 3-4 for love interests. *regular?
UNLIKE SCIENCE FICTION AND POLICE PROCEDURALS,the situation comedy genre historically has offered few, if any, represen-tations of female scientists.
Few representation of female scientists in sit-coms.
Bernadette’s and Amy’s scientific careers set them up as suitable partners for their accomplished boyfriends, but these careers become fodder for the developments of their relationships.
Includes both Amy and Bernadette. Careers are key to the development of relationships
While both Bernadette and Amy pos-sess achievements as scientists as part of their characters, sharp contrasts appear in those representations.
Contrast about their representation both including Amy and Bernadette
Both Bernadette and Amy earn rec-ognition for their achievements in their fields.
The topic sentence for the 2nd previous (?) one, Amy was only in the intro, however this topic sentence, includes both female characters.
While discussions of work become one way to show their professional roles, another way lies in showing these characters performing their professional roles in a work setting.
How characters perform professional role in the show.
Amy’s discussions of her expertise and her work appear more frequently throughout the show.
Topic sentence is about Amy's expertise and work
Because Bernadette and Amy work as scientists, they both have the potential to contribute to the discussions among the friends about their own work and to share their own observations based on scientific inquiry.
Because? Female characters contribute to conversations with their friends that are based on scientific inquiry.
The professional aspirations for fe-male characters thus become an oppor-tunity for ridicule within situation com-edies.
Female scientists in a sit-com are ridiculed for aspiring a professional role
A professional role refers to a char-acter’s job or occupation outside the home.
Defining a professional role for a character
Unlike other television genres, the situation comedy offers the opportunity to push the boundaries of these repre-sentations in terms of female scientists through their professional roles, their gender roles, and their intelligence.
Topic sentence about the structure of the paper
A hegemonic tension operates throughout situation comedies and pro-vides a flexible boundary along which these tensions humorously play out.
Sit com provides flexible boundary while humors tensions plays out.
Among all these studies, few focus on scientists generally and female scien-tists specifically in situation comedies.
The topic sentence of the paragraph is about focusing on female scientists in sit-com
A third theme centers on work-life balance, in that female scientists strug-gle to find equilibrium (Long et al. 359).
The topic sentence dives right into the third theme. I know when you read you find out about 1 and 2 but the topic sentence started with theme three.
Many scholars see the job of rhetorical pedagogy as helping students to forge real relationships with publics and counterpublics.
Topic sentence, introduces her point about scholars in relation to rhetorical pedagogy (their thoughts)
The idea that architecture regulates is found at the core of much urban planning and geography scholarship,
Does the three things all Topic Sentences do: 1) Stakes a claim, 2) Relates that claim to the overall aim, and 3) Leans into the ensuing paragraph.
Despite this deep theoretical understanding of the powerful role that archi-tecture plays in crafting experience
If a molecule is too big, you give it to the chemists. The chemists, for them, if the molecule is too big or the system gets too big, you give it to the biologists. And if it gets too big for them, they give it to the psychologists, and finally it ends up in the hands of the literary critic, and so on.
