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  1. Oct 2016
    1. Sheldon uses this knowledge to blackmail Leonard into successfully signing a new room-mate agreement.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.

      She just ends the summary without analysis or saying what it has to do with the topic and then just brings it to a different subject

    2. For example, in “The Justice League Recombination,” Bernadette misses a key event because she remains under quarantine for possible yellow fe-ver because of drinking out of contami-nated petri dishes. Amy’s discussions of her expertise and her work appear more frequently throughout the show.

      McIntosh goes from talking about one person to talking about another without a transition

    3. In particular, these nuances appear through their discussions of their areas of expertise and their careers, their per-formances of their work, and their exter-nal recognitions for their achievements. 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.

      Both are talking about the same topic it is as if they should be part of the same paragraph

    4. The three main female characters do appear in the work situations at different times, but their locations remain primarily in the domestic ones. A hegemonic tension operates throughout situation comedies and pro-vides a flexible boundary along which these tensions humorously play out.

      McIntosh finally does not end on a quote and her transition flows to the next paragraph

    5. More specifically, female scientists were considered “good” nine out of 10 times, with the remaining scientists being considered “mixed” (Dudo et al. 762).

      Again ended with a quote and no transition

    6. Children’s programming further features scientists, such as Bill Nye The Science Guy. Steinke et. al ex-amined middle-schoolers’ responses to the scientists in these and other shows using traits such as “intelligence, domi-nance, alone, and respected” (172) and found the overall response favorable.

      McIntosh ends on a quote not analyzing it or relating it back to what she is trying to say.

    7. While other female scientists do appear briefly throughout the series, Amy and Berna-dette appear most frequently and with the most developed storylines.The Big Bang Theory offers a unique moment to explore the representations of female scientists within the situa-tion comedy.

      McIntosh does the same thing here. She does not have a great ending she does start the next paragraph connecting to the ones before

    8. When the scientists get caught try-ing to unravel some seemingly compli-cated puzzle, Penny provides the laughs in suggesting the “obvious” solution. Starting with the third and fourth sea-sons, The Big Bang Theory introduced more regular female characters as love interests for the main characters.

      At the end of McIntosh's first paragraph where she describes the show, she just ends the paragraph without stating an end. She leaves the next paragraph to start on its own, although she does start the next paragraph relating to the one before.