Please look at all the files, the work consists of assignments on how to properly site different sources in APA/MLA.
News Search Activity News Search Activity info260.hcommons.org/news-search-activity/ Goals of the Activity: Explore news-search environments Practice advanced news searching strategies Review the distinction between “news” and “opinion” in news sources Practice citing news sources In order to successfully complete this Activity, you will need to first read the Week 1 assigned reading on news sources. You will be submitting your work by sharing it with classmates in the Week 1 News Search Activity forum. (You can link to this forum from the Week 1 area, or just go directly to the Discussion Board). Activity instructions: 1. Copy your research question onto a blank document and highlight, boldface, or underline its key terms or concepts. For example: Will open educational resources replace commercial textbooks? 2. Brainstorm a little to come up with related alternate search terms for each of the question’s core components or concepts. Create a list of these terms. For example: Will open educational resources replace commercial textbooks? 1/3 https://info260.hcommons.org/news-search-activity/ http://info260.hcommons.org/news/ Open educational resources commercial textbooks OER for-profit textbook publishing “open textbooks” retail educational publishing “open education materials” royalty-based You will come up with new terms once you begin searching (be sure to add them to your list!), so it’s okay to begin with just a few. 3. Search for relevant newspaper sources through Nexis Uni or Google News, or both. Each database contains sources other than newspaper sources. Please review the instructional materials included in the Week 1 reading to ensure that the sources you retrieve for this activity are newspaper sources, specifically. 4. Identify two (2) newspaper sources that seem potentially relevant to your project, and write complete and correct citations for them. Information about how to cite newspaper sources is included in the Week 1 reading. 5. Identify each of your two sources as “NEWS” or “OPINION.” (If you’d like, you can be more specific: for example, “news analysis,” “feature,” “editorial,” etc.—see the assigned reading.) Identifying sources by type will involve actually reading—or at least skimming— the articles. If you are unsure how to categorize one of your sources, ask for help from your instructor, classmates, or an NU librarian. Note: Variety is not a requirement of this Activity, so if both of your sources are news stories—as in the example that follows—just write “NEWS” before each of your two citations. (Most of the newspaper sources you encounter will be news sources since editorials, opinion columns, reviews, etc. represent only a small percentage of newspaper content.) Example Here is an example of a completed News Search Activity: Will open educational resources replace commercial textbooks? 2/3 http://info260.hcommons.org/news/ Open educational resources commercial textbooks OER for-profit textbook publishing “open textbooks” retail educational publishing “open education materials” royalty-based NEWS Guttenplan, D. D. (2012, March 19). Open resources: Transforming the way knowledge is spread. The International Herald Tribune. NEWS Free online content forces publishers to adjust. (2013, July 10). Education Week. Submit your work by posting it on the class News Search Activity board. You will find a link to this board in the Week 1 area. 3/3 News Search Activity Goals of the Activity: Activity instructions: Example