COM 530 Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubrics For this second milestone, which supports the successful completion of your final project, you will pick the topic that you plan to use for the case study that you will feature in your handbook. You are required to pick a real and controversial dilemma in digital communication today. It can be an incident or a general issue that currently pervades the communication industry and should illustrate the importance of at least one of the “ethical guidelines” for ethical and legal communication in the field that you wrote about in Milestone One. You can use Media Ethics: Issues and Cases (Patterson, Wilkins, & Painter) to choose cases or ideas; but, you cannot use any of the following cases that we will be covering elsewhere in this course 5A - Drones and the News 6D – WikiLeaks 8A - Killing a Journalist On-Air: A Means-End Test 2H – What's Yours Is Mine This assignment was designed to support your successful completion of section IV: Case Study in the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric. Prompt: In your milestone submission, include the following critical elements:  Provide a title and summary of your incident/issue and why you chose it.  Describe the legal and ethical issues you believe are present in this case.  A justification of why this topic is important and worth studying  List at least three potential sources that are relevant to your chosen topic. Include a brief description of how you will incorporate the information found in each into your final project, due in Week 9. Don’t just list the textbooks! Seek other sources. Be specific about exactly how you’ll use these resources in the final project Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 2–4-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one- inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format. Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value Summary of Incident/Issue in the Case and Explanation of Rationale Meets “Proficient” criteria and provides insights about the incident/issue and a depth of understanding about the rationale for choosing Provides a summary of the incident/issue and provides rationale for its choice Provides a summary of the incident/issue but summary lacks information about the topic or does not fully explain rationale for choosing Does not provide an adequate summary or an appropriate rationale for the choice of the incident/issue 20 Description of Ethical and Legal Issues in the Case Meets “Proficient” criteria and demonstrates a depth of understanding about the ethical and legal issues present in the case Describes ethical and legal issues that are present in the case using specific examples Describes ethical or legal issues in the case, or description is cursor ...

1. COM 530 Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubrics
For this second milestone, which supports the successful
completion of your final project, you will pick the topic that
you plan to use for the case study that you
will feature in your handbook. You are required to pick a real
and controversial dilemma in digital communication today. It
can be an incident or a general issue
that currently pervades the communication industry and should
illustrate the importance of at least one of the “ethical
guidelines” for ethical and legal
communication in the field that you wrote about in Milestone
One.
You can use Media Ethics: Issues and Cases (Patterson,
Wilkins, & Painter) to choose cases or ideas; but, you cannot
use any of the following cases that we will
be covering elsewhere in this course
5A - Drones and the News

2. 6D – WikiLeaks
8A - Killing a Journalist On-Air: A Means-End Test
2H – What's Yours Is Mine
This assignment was designed to support your successful
completion of section IV: Case Study in the Final Project
Guidelines and Rubric.
Prompt: In your milestone submission, include the following
critical elements:
you chose it.
he legal and ethical issues you believe are present
in this case.
studying
chosen topic. Include a brief description of how you will
incorporate the information found
in each into your final project, due in Week 9. Don’t just list
the textbooks! Seek other sources. Be specific about exactly
how you’ll use these resources in
the final project

3. Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a
2–4-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-
point Times New Roman font, one-
inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.
Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (90%) Needs
Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Summary of
Incident/Issue in the
Case and Explanation
of Rationale
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
provides insights about the
incident/issue and a depth of
understanding about the
rationale for choosing
Provides a summary of the
incident/issue and provides
rationale for its choice
Provides a summary of the
incident/issue but summary
lacks information about the
topic or does not fully explain
rationale for choosing
Does not provide an adequate

4. summary or an appropriate
rationale for the choice of the
incident/issue
20
Description of Ethical
and Legal Issues in
the Case
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
demonstrates a depth of
understanding about the
ethical and legal issues present
in the case
Describes ethical and legal
issues that are present in the
case using specific examples
Describes ethical or legal issues
in the case, or description is
cursory or contains some
inaccuracies
Does not describe ethical and
legal issues present in this case
25
Explanation of Topic
Relevance to Digital
Communication

5. Meets “Proficient” criteria and
demonstrates a depth of
understanding about how the
topic is currently relevant to
digital communication
Explains why the topic is
relevant to current digital
communication
Explains why the topic is
relevant to current digital
communication but explanation
is cursory or contains some
inaccuracies
Does not provide a clear
explanation about why the
topic is relevant to current
digital communication
25
Resources Provides a list of scholarly
resources that are relevant to
the chosen topic and includes
information about how the
resources will be used in
relation to the topic
Provides a list of scholarly
resources planned for use
discussing the topic
Lists fewer than three scholarly
resources planned for use

6. discussing the topic
Does not include list of
resources
25
Articulation of
Response
Submission is free of errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, and
organization and is presented in
a professional and easy-to-read
format
Submission has no major errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
Submission has major errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
that negatively impact
readability and articulation of
main ideas
Submission has critical errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
that prevent understanding of
ideas
5

7. Total 100%
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