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BSCOM 240 All Assignments For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   BSCOM 240
Week 1 Identifying and Eliminating Bias   BSCOM
240 Week 1 Pre-Search Questions and
Application   BSCOM 240 Week 2 Finding
Information  
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BSCOM 240 Week 1 Identifying and Eliminating
Bias For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialr
ank.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.
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BSCOM 240 Week 1 Pre-Search Questions and
Application For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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. 
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BSCOM 240 Week 2 Beyond Breaking News For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Reso
urces 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
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Reso
urces 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 course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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.
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BSCOM 240 Week 3 Exploring Virtual Libraries For
more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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). Res
earch 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 course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Complete Ap
pendix 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 course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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 course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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
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BSCOM 240 Week 5 Writing Your Story For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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. Prepare a summary lead of no more than
75 words b
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