Assignment: Coverage of a Controversial Issue
Access Info., Assignments, Critical Reading, Define Info. Need, Evaluate Info., Intermediate, Popular vs. Scholarly, Use Info. Effectively August 10th. 2009, 2:28pmIn this assignment, students are asked to locate three articles about a controversial issue. The articles must be from different types of sources (newspaper, magazine, scholarly journal, etc.). The students then are asked to compare the sources in terms of the intended audience, the authors’ credentials, bias, depth of coverage, point of view, etc.
