Social Media and Civic Journalism Critical Essay

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Business Finance

1) Read articles and watch videos

2) Explore grassroots social media organization, blogs or twitter/Facebook site for news/politics

3) Write a critical essay focusing on analyzing and examining social media site for civic journalism or news. Critically analyze and explain emerging challenges, promise and pitfalls of social media on news and civic engagement. In doing so, incorporate all the readings and videos.

4) You should include the cite of articles in the course and at least two outside sourse. One of the primary goals for this assignment is to demonstrate your understanding for the module articles. Make sure you cite them as necessary but avoid excessively long quotes in a short paper like this. By all means, paraphrase and then give citations.

5) MAKE SURE YOU PROVIDE A REFERENCE PAGE IN APA STYLE.


Articles

1. https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/how-obam…

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Videos

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Rubric

There is a well-developed introduction with an attention grabber that grabs the reader’s interest and continues to engage the reader up until the thesis statement. The thesis statement should clearly state the experience or event that will be described as well as the effect on the writer. Conclusion should effectively wraps up and re stresses the importance of the thesis.

Well developed main points/topic sentences that relate directly to the thesis. Supporting examples are concrete and detailed. The analysis is developed with an effective point of view.

Logical Progression of ideas with a clear structure that enhances the thesis. Transitions are effective and vary throughout the paragraph, not just in the topic sentences. Writing is smooth, skillful, and coherent. Sentences are strong and expressive with varied structure. Diction is consistent and words are well chosen. Punctuation, spelling, and capitalization are all correct. No errors.

Essay follows/addresses the module assignment instruction/guidelines exactly as requested: these includes page lengths, font, size, spacing of paper, specific instructions on case studies that need to be examined, or essays that need to be cited, number of references, questions asked from the instruction as well as expectations for each assignment explained in the video clip.