1. Look for 10 current event news from ProQuest newspapers on line, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor.
2. Your respond for each current event should be a critical appraisal, but it also should include a summary. The summary should present the themes of the greatest importance which usually are scattered throughout the reading. There also should be an evaluation. The evaluation should include your response to the concepts expressed in the readings. These short written assignments should be approximately one (1) typewritten pages.
3. Consider the following questions while gathering articles, organizing your ideas, and writing your summaries:
1. What are the big issues or problems included in the topic you have chosen?
2. What individuals and/or organizations offer information or commentary on this subject?
3. What are the local, national and/or international implications of this issue or topic?
4. Who is affected by these issues/problems? How?
5. How does placement in the newspaper indicate the issue’s or topics relative importance to the national or international community?
6. How did these issues or problems develop?
7. Why have these problems surfaced or resurfaced now?
8. What is their present status?
9. What governmental, political, economic, social, or environmental forces have affected these issues or problems during the time you have been clipping articles?
10. What are the future prospects of these problems?
11. What individuals or groups have a share or interest in the topic you have chosen?
12. What, if any, are the benefits of these issues to the stakeholders involved?
13. What, if any, recommendations or perspectives about these issues are expressed on the Op-Ed page or in letters to the editors?
14. What is this reading tell me about world societies? Is this information new to me? Is it changing my way of thinking on a particular issue?
4. Your paper should include complete citations as footnotes. See Turabian.
5. Attach the articles, editorials, columns, letters to the editors and other items which address your topic. {the current event }
6. Date and identify each item by page(s) and column(s).
7. You may want to highlight portions of the clippings that you find especially interesting, and group them not only chronologically, but by the narrower subjects which are addressed.
Part two
Your essay summaries may take one of the following approaches:
i. Introduction and analysis of the subject
Write an essay analyzing of your subject and discussing how it has evolved since you began clipping articles. Refer to governmental, political, social and economic forces that were involved.
ii. Evolution and analysis of the issue within a discrete time frame
Write your essay as an analysis of your subject in essay form, discussing how it has evolved since you began clipping articles. Refer to governmental, political, social and economic forces that were involved.
iii. Opinion review
Outline the various viewpoints of individuals and organizations whose opinions appear either in pieces on the Op-Ed page or in quotations included in news stories. You may wish to use other resources to include additional perspectives, if so you must include complete citations of other sources.
iv. Clippings Thesis
Use the information and resources you have gathered to formulate your own viewpoint, solution or commentary on the subject you have chosen. Support your argument in essay form and a letter to the editor. Include complete citations.
