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BSCOM 240 RANK Lessons in Excellence--bscom240rank.com

FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT <br>www.Bscom240rank.com<br><br>BSCOM 240 Week 1 Identifying and Eliminating Bias<br> <br>BSCOM 240 Week 1 Pre-Search Questions and Application<br> <br>BSCOM 240 Week 2 Finding Information<br>

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  1. BSCOM 240 RANK Lessons in Excellence--bscom240rank.com

  2. BSCOM 240 RANK Lessons in Excellence--bscom240rank.com • BSCOM 240 All Assignments • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.Bscom240rank.com • BSCOM 240 Week 1 Identifying and Eliminating Bias • BSCOM 240 Week 1 Pre-Search Questions and Application • BSCOM 240 Week 2 Finding Information

  3. BSCOM 240 RANK Lessons in Excellence--bscom240rank.com • BSCOM 240 Week 1 Identifying and Eliminating Bias • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bscom240rank.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.

  4. BSCOM 240 RANK Lessons in Excellence--bscom240rank.com • BSCOM 240 Week 1 Pre-Search Questions and Application • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bscom240rank.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.

  5. BSCOM 240 RANK Lessons in Excellence--bscom240rank.com • BSCOM 240 Week 2 Beyond Breaking News • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bscom240rank.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.

  6. BSCOM 240 RANK Lessons in Excellence--bscom240rank.com • BSCOM 240 Week 2 Finding Information • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bscom240rank.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.

  7. BSCOM 240 RANK Lessons in Excellence--bscom240rank.com • BSCOM 240 Week 3 Dealing With Informal Sources • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bscom240rank.com • 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.

  8. BSCOM 240 RANK Lessons in Excellence--bscom240rank.com • BSCOM 240 Week 3 Exploring Virtual Libraries • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bscom240rank.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.

  9. BSCOM 240 RANK Lessons in Excellence--bscom240rank.com • BSCOM 240 Week 4 Article Summary • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bscom240rank.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.

  10. BSCOM 240 RANK Lessons in Excellence--bscom240rank.com • BSCOM 240 Week 4 Evaluating Information Reflection • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bscom240rank.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: • • A description of the step-by-step process you would use in researching this project

  11. BSCOM 240 RANK Lessons in Excellence--bscom240rank.com • BSCOM 240 Week 5 Evaluating Your Research Process • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bscom240rank.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 their organization, and to themselves. • Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

  12. BSCOM 240 RANK Lessons in Excellence--bscom240rank.com • BSCOM 240 Week 5 Writing Your Story • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.bscom240rank.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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