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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
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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
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BSCOM 240 Week 1 Pre-Search Questions and
Application For more classes visit www.snaptutor
ial.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.
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BSCOM 240 Week 2 Beyond Breaking News For more
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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.
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BSCOM 240 Week 2 Finding Information For more
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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.
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BSCOM 240 Week 3 Dealing With Informal Sources
For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Rev
iew "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
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BSCOM 240 Week 3 Exploring Virtual Libraries
For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Rev
iew 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).
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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.snaptutori
al.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.
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BSCOM 240 Week 5 Evaluating Your Research
Process For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.
com   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
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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.
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