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• BSCOM 240 All Assignments
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• 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

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• BSCOM 240 Week 1 Identifying and Eliminating Bias
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• 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.

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• BSCOM 240 Week 1 Pre-Search Questions and
  Application
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• 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.

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• BSCOM 240 Week 2 Beyond Breaking News
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• 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.

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• BSCOM 240 Week 3 Dealing With Informal Sources
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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.

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• BSCOM 240 Week 4 Article Summary
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• 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
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• 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
• A description of the step-by-step process you
  would use in researching this project

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• BSCOM 240 Week 5 Writing Your Story
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• 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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