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BSCOM 240 All Assignments For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   BSCOM 240 Week 1
Identifying and Eliminating Bias BSCOM 240 Week 1
Pre-Search Questions and Application BSCOM 240
Week 2 Finding Information BSCOM 240 Week 2
Beyond Breaking News BSCOM 240 Week 3 Dealing
With Informal Sources BSCOM 240 Week 3 Exploring
Virtual Libraries BSCOM 240 Week 4 Article
Summary  
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BSCOM 240 Week 1 Identifying and Eliminating
Bias For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com  
Review Ch. 11 and Box 11.2 "Guidelines for
Racial Identification" of Reaching
Audiences. Read the front page of The Kelsey
Gazette and choose one of the headline
stories. Write a 350- to 700-word paper in which
you discuss potential bias in the story you
selected and ways you can avoid bias as you
conduct your own research. Address the
following Identify the bias and unethical use of
information. What criteria could you use to
improve the credibility of this story?  
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BSCOM 240 Week 1 Pre-Search Questions and
Application For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.com   Develop a list of at least five
pre-search questions to avoid message bias and
identify potential sources about your project
topic. See examples in Ch. 9 of Reaching
Audiences under "Developing a Strategy" in the
"Getting Started" section. Find and list three
or four sources for your project topic. Use
Appendix A Information Trail to help you
organize your sources. Write a 350- to 700-word
analysis of the sources for their credibility
based on the following criteria Accuracy Authorit
y  
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BSCOM 240 Week 2 Beyond Breaking News For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Resources
Ch. 7 8 of Reaching Audiences Submit a summary
discussing the advantages and challenges of
researching and producing online content for your
project topic. Include the challenges of audience
participation. Explain how your topic might be
different when delivered either through a
newspaper or on the Internet, and how it might be
different as a breaking news story, a news
feature, or a blog entry. You may deliver this
assignment in any of the following formats A
presentation consisting of 4 to 7 slides  
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BSCOM 240 Week 2 Finding Information For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Resources
Ch. 9 of Reaching Audiences and the University
Library Locate at least three articles through
the University Library that are potential sources
for your project topic. Locate a recent news
story related to your topic from at least three
different news aggregators Google News, Bing
News, Yahoo News, or others.  
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BSCOM 240 Week 3 Dealing With Informal
Sources For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.co
m   Review "The People Formerly Known as the
Audience" in the Electronic Reserve
Readings. Locate two recent news stories about
your project topic. Pay attention to the comments
section and to the share function (to share on
social media sites). Consider how the audience
receives and creates information and how social
media affects the way people receive information.
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BSCOM 240 Week 3 Exploring Virtual Libraries For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Review
a "Guide to Media Writing" and "Observation" in
Ch. 9 of Reaching Audiences. Identify specific
sources using the Librarian Internet Index
(http//www.ipl.org). Research your topic using
at least two different sources. Write a 350- to
700-word paper discussing these sources in terms
of accessibility and usability. Provide specific
examples of the information you found to support
your claims. Discuss common pitfalls of online
research.  
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BSCOM 240 Week 4 Article Summary For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Complete Appendix B
by answering the set of questions about each of
the sources you have identified for your project
in a 1-paragraph summary for each Use the
checklists in Ch. 10, 11, 12 of Bookmarks to
help you reflect on your answers. Submit your
assignment to the Assignment Files tab.  
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BSCOM 240 Week 4 Evaluating Information
Reflection For more classes visit www.snaptutorial
.com   Imagine you are working in a corporate
environment and your manager has asked you to
write a report evaluating various personality
evaluation tests that could be used to strengthen
communication between coworkers. Write a 350- to
700-word reflection that describes how you would
approach this task. Include the following  
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BSCOM 240 Week 5 Evaluating Your Research
Process For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.co
m   Review all your previous assignments and
readings. Write a 700- to 1,050-word
self-evaluation of the research processes you
undertook in this course. Include a discussion of
your opinion, based on what you learned in this
course, regarding the ethical responsibilities of
journalists to society, to their organization,
and to themselves. Format your paper consistent
with APA guidelines. Submit your assignment to
the Assignment Files tab.  
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BSCOM 240 Week 5 Writing Your Story For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   At this
point, you have completed your research and now
it's time for you to be the journalist and write
a newspaper story of your chosen topic. Review
Ch. 5 6 of Reaching Audiences for insight and
examples of how to write a story lead and use the
inverted pyramid when writing news stories.  
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