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 BSCOM 240 Week 3 Dealing With Informal Sources BSCOM 240 Week 3 Exploring Virtual Libraries BSCOM 240 Week 4 Article Summary BSCOM 240 Week 4 Evaluating Information Reflection BSCOM 240 Week 5 Writing Your Story BSCOM 240 Week 5 Evaluating Your Research Process

1. 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
BSCOM 240 Week 3 Exploring Virtual Libraries
BSCOM 240 Week 4 Article Summary
BSCOM 240 Week 4 Evaluating Information Reflection
BSCOM 240 Week 5 Writing Your Story
BSCOM 240 Week 5 Evaluating Your Research Process
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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.
What criteria could you use to improve the credibility of this story?
How could you rewrite the story to eliminate the bias? Consider
that your audience is a general audience consisting of men and
women of varying education levels.
How would you adapt your message to an audience made up
exclusively of college professors?
Discuss potential areas of bias associated with your own research
topic.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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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.
Write a 350- to 700-word analysis of the sources for their
credibility based on the following criteria:
Accuracy
Authority
Currency
Audience
Agenda
Develop a list of several follow-up questions you have after
reading these sources.
Format your paper and cite your resources consistent with APA
guidelines.
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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.
You may deliver this assignment in any of the following formats:
A presentation consisting of 4 to 7 slides
A 3- to 4-minute audio podcast
A blog entry of 350 to 700 words
Note. If you choose to submit a blog entry, you may set one up on
PhoenixConnect by clicking on your student profile and navigating
to the Content tab. Once there, click on Write a blog post under the
Actions column on the right-hand part of your screen.
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BSCOM 240 Week 2 Finding Information
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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.
Write a 350- to 700-word evaluating and comparing the process of
using the University Library versus the news aggregators in terms
ofaccessibility and usability. Support your claims with specific
examples of the information you found.
Evaluate your findings using the criteria for establishing credibility
from your Pre-Search Questions and Application assignment in
BSCOM 240 Week 1.
Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.
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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.
Write a 350- to 700-word blog in which you briefly discuss the
effects the online audience can have on a story's content,
credibility, and trending, particularly as it relates to your topic.
Address the following questions:
How might this affect the way you write your story?
How is quoting informal information from an interview different
from quoting information from online comments?
Why is it important to be accurate and attribute sources?
Note to student. You may set up a blog on PhoenixConnect by
clicking on your student profile and navigating to the Content tab.
Once there, click on Write a blog post under the Actions column
on the right-hand part of your screen.
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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.
Discuss common pitfalls of online research.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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BSCOM 240 Week 4 Article Summary
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8. 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.
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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
Types of information resources used and why you believe they are
valid resources

9. Examples of information resources that are not valid and why you
believe so
Analysis of the validity of the two or three personality tests: who
created them and why they are considered valid tools
Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.
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BSCOM 240 Week 5 Evaluating Your Research
Process
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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.
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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.
Prepare a summary lead of no more than 75 words based on your
topic.
Write a 350- to 700-word news story about your topic using the
inverted pyramid style. Be sure to include the basic news elements:
who, what, where, when, why, and how in your story.
Note to student. The ability to write concisely in the inverted
pyramid style is a valued skill not only in the news industry but in
many public relations and communications offices.
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