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6 pages in length. This paper reviews three articles on the title subject and analyzes each article. There are people who use language that would be considered biased in use. The question that is raised is this: Is the language a cause of the bias or is the bias a cause of the language used? Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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a cause of the language used? In order to find the answer to this question we shall examine three articles on the subject and determine, if possible, the findings
that emerge. I. ARTICLE NUMBER ONE In the first article we will examine, there is a study which explores whether alternating between the pronouns "he" and "she" in
a text is an effective way to avoid sexist language. Participants were psychology students at a large midwestern university and were predominately white and from middle-class backgrounds. Students
read two versions of an essay, one that alternated between masculine and feminine pronouns and one that exclusively used paired, "he or she"-type pronouns. Readers perceived the alternating version
to be biased in favor of females and lower in overall quality than the paired version. However, the alternating version appeared to be more effective at combating sexism, suggesting
an alternating strategy may be desirable for authors with this goal. It seems that if the author is not primarily concerned with increasing readers awareness of gender issues, techniques
such as pluralization or the singular "they" may be more appropriate (Madson, 1999). This study attempted to create a fair basis whereby alternating paragraphs used he or she accordingly in
order to assign gender an equal number of times throughout the paper. While this seems to be an equal and viable way to split the bias down the middle,
the results were in actuality a more muddled way of writing. Those participating in the study agreed that shifting from one gender to the other in each paragraph left
the reader with a feeling of choppiness; in other words, the text did not flow properly. Additionally, it was found that not only did this system make the
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