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CMC 240 Week 1 CheckPoint: Message Context and Content

CMC 240 Week 1 DQS PART 1 OF 2
CMC 240 Week 1 DQS PART 2 OF 2
CMC 240 Week 2 Assignment: Case Study Evaluation

 CMC 240 Week 1 Checkpoint Message

Context and Content

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CheckPoint: Message Context and Content

Resources: Ch. 2 & 3 of the Behind the Message. Explain in 250 to 300 words how
you would present information about recycling differently to first graders

 CMC 240 Week 1 DQ 1

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Discussion Questions
ethical is not as clear as what is legal, so ethical choices are more open to debate.
o A student with a 4.0 GPA who has never been suspected of cheating is found in
possession of a set of test answers for an upcoming final exam. In a news story, a
local reporter labels the student as a culprit before

 CMC 240 Week 1 DQ 2

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Discussion Questions
ethical is not as clear as what is legal, so ethical choices are more open to debate.
o A student with a 4.0 GPA who has never been suspected of cheating is found in
possession of a set of test answers for an upcoming final exam.

 CMC 240 Week 2 Assignment Case

Study Evaluation

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Assignment: Case Study Evaluation

Review the Appendix in the text (pp. 285300), which details a news story with
delineated information sources. Identify the information sources you believe provide
the strongest of each of the following:
o Credibility
o Accuracy

 CMC 240 Week 2 CheckPoint Search

Questions

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CheckPoint: Search Questions

Resource: Ch. 4 of the text. Create four search questions you think will be effective in
researching the topic you chose last week. Discuss in 250 to 300 words how the
wording of each question can help you maintain the focus of your search despite
information that may bias your investigations purpose.

 CMC 240 Week 3 CheckPoint News

Monitoring Services

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CheckPoint: News Monitoring Services

Resource: Ch. 10 of the text. Investigate a breaking news story about your chosen
topic at each of these news monitoring services:
o http://news.yahoo.com/
o http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html
o http://news.google.com/

 CMC 240 Week 3 DQ 1

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Discussion Questions
State your topic and a single, well-defined question concerning the topic that you
want to answer.
Identify whether your intent is to persuade, inform, or present a solution.
Identify your prospective audience by considering to whom this question is important.

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Discussion Questions
State your topic and a single, well-defined question concerning the topic that you
want to answer.
Identify whether your intent is to persuade, inform, or present a solution.
Identify your prospective audience by considering to whom this question is important.

 CMC 240 Week 4 Assignment Multiple

Points of View

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Assignment: Multiple Points of View
Resources: Ch. 3 & Ch. 10 of the text. Review the point of view diagram on p. 39 of
the text and consider how the interests of the perspectives vary. Identify as many
different possible points

 CMC 240 Week 4 CheckPoint Journalistic

Sources

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CheckPoint: Journalistic Sources

Resource: Ch. 10 of the text. Select three types of journalistic stories from pp. 216
217 of the text and explain the following in 250 to 300 words:
o How would your topic be presented in each type of story?

 CMC 240 Week 5 CheckPoint Informal

Sources

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CheckPoint: Informal Sources

Resource: Ch. 7 of the text.
Summarize in 250 to 300 words observation oversights and interview distortions that
can compromise information from informal sources.

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o Reading
o Personal experience
o Hearsay
o Chain emails
o Chat rooms

 CMC 240 Week 5 DQ 2

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Discussion Questions
with or curious about. Outline briefly what you believe you already know about the
topic and assess how much of this information is from the following sources:
o Reading
o Personal experience
o Hearsay

 CMC 240 Week 7 CheckPoint Information

Evaluation

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CheckPoint: Information Evaluation

Resource: Ch. 11 of the text. Review the information from the Information Trail
Assignment and your classmates responses to your discussion question answers this
week. Analyze the following questions with regard to your chosen topic in 250 to 300
words:
o What information should be verified? Why?

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o Clarity
o Recency
o Relevance
Consider responding to your classmates by adding your perspective to their concerns
about these tests of evidence.

 CMC 240 Week 8 Assignment Minimum

vs. Maximum Story

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Assignment: Minimum vs. Maximum Story

Resource: Ch. 12 of the text. Write a 750- to 1,050-word paper that evaluates the
scope of the information you have reviewed about your topic and describes the
following:
o the minimum story you could write with the information you have currently reviewed

 CMC 240 Week 8 CheckPoint Information

Synthesis

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CheckPoint: Information Synthesis

Resource: Ch. 12 of the text. Outline in 250 to 300 words three different ways
information about your topic may be organized, and explain how each type of
organization shapes the message differently

 CMC 240 Week 9 Final Project Evaluation

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Final Project: Evaluation of Information Strategies

Review the list of information strategies in Appendix A. Write a 1,750- to 2,050-word
paper analyzing the information strategies you learned in this course

 MC 240 Week 9 Capstone Discussion

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Capstone Discussion Question

hics in regard to:
o Society in general
o The organization you work for