These are the Instructions for the Original Assignment:
Task: You will choose one current event topic (within the past year) and locate three news articles from reliable sources that discuss this movement. You will also locate two biased news sources to compare media narratives (one source from the political right and political left). Then, you will write a brief essay explaining the story or topic, how bias impacts media narrative, what perspective you find most compelling, how your perception of your topic change by engaging with multiple perspectives, and what potential consequences arise from biased reporting.
Your essay should:
Provide a brief (no more than half page) description of the topic/story.
Describe, in about one page, what we learn about the topic/story from synthesizing this set of news articles. Synthesize! Do not summarize each article.
Analyze connections between the topic/story, course material, and your experiences.
How bias and/or multiple perspectives shape popular opinion, shape political discourse, and the potential consequences that arise from media bias.
Follow conventions of formal academic writing in English.
Follow basic essay structure (There should be a logical flow between sentences and paragraphs).
Be carefully proofread for spelling, punctuation, grammar, and other mechanical errors.
Include proper Chicago-style footnote citations and bibliography.
Use a minimum of three news articles from reliable, credible sources one source biased towards the political left and another from the political right.
See the Media Bias Chart Links to an external site. for one way to identify reliable news sources. Please choose sites in the chart’s green box.
Requirements:
Title and Title Page
Minimum for credit is 1000 words. I am more concerned about high-quality writing than about the paper’s length.
Properly formatted Chicago Style footnotes and bibliography.
The paper will be submitted in Times New Roman font. 12 pt font for the body text and 10 pt font for footnotes.
Legible composition and formatting.
I need help re-writing this. This was my feedback.
Key issues.
-A lot of informal comp leads to wordiness and leading the reader.
-Be certain in factual claims, and don’t hedge your language. It weakens the claims unnecessarily.
-Footnotes are formatted incorrectly.
-When you engage in specific claims and composition, your paper really shines and is highly effective.
This drops some of the key prompt elements. It is trying to be a traditional research paper, which isn’t what was asked for. The media analysis is light, and there is little engagement with bias. AA is highly contentious and that should have been reflected in the essay.
Category: Native American History
Walter Echo-Hawk in his unique, forward-looking and optimistic book, In the Light of Justice, focuses on a central question: “How should modern nations comport themselves towards their Native people in the post -colonial age?” In a five-page expository essay, address this question using three examples of evidence from Echo-Hawk (either from his book, his 2013 UCDavis presentation from the video on Canvas or from examples from lecture such as the October 1999 removal of 13 Patwin individuals and their grave contents) that sheds light and opens public engagement and discussion on this critical human rights and social justice issue.
Sovereignty and Self-Determination: Native America from the Second Half of the Twentieth Century to the Present
The second half of the twentieth century began with the threat of Termination and ended with Native people asserting their sovereignty. Termination prompted a vigorous response from Native Americans. Forging self-belief through activism, participating in pan- tribal organizations and movements, and advocating for the rights of Native nations, indigenous peoples have claimed their place in American society. At the heart of indigenous activism is sovereignty, and Native nations have tried to make that sovereignty real by practicing economic, cultural, and political self-determination. Legal activism, land claims, Indian gaming, and the repatriation of Native remains and artifacts have all featured prominently in efforts aimed at self-determination. In this exam you must explain the Native push for political, economic, and cultural self-determination beginning in the 1950s and extending to the present day, and the challenges to Native sovereignty by the federal government and the larger, non-native, American society.
Exam Guidelines:
These approximately 7 page (2100–2300 word) papers are to be rigorous and nuanced analyses of the assigned texts. The purpose of this exam is for you to demonstrate your understanding of the history of the period and to show how carefully and thoroughly you have done the reading. In this exam you must quote—not just paraphrase—all SEVEN sources we have read after the midterm: chapters 5,6, and 7 of “We Are Still Here,” chapters 9 and 10 of First Peoples and Supplementary Readings 5 and 6. Whatever claims you make in your exam must be supported by textual evidence from the readings. Papers will be graded according to the knowledge of the readings, the understanding of the history, the persuasiveness of the arguments, and the clarity of the writing. You must have two quotes from the sources in every chapter except for the first and last paragraphs.
Citation Instructions:
The citation instructions for this paper are unique to this assignment but they are part of the grade and must be followed. For “We Are Still Here” the citation must be a brief abbreviation followed by a chapter number: (WA, ch 2). Do the same with First Peoples: (FP, ch 7). For the supplementary reading you just need to include which number it is: (Supp 3). The usual rules of attribution should be followed, authors or speakers should be mentioned in the text. For example: “Calloway argues” or “Iverson and Davies maintain” or “Dorothy Peche explains” and so forth.
Structure of paragraph is really importnat. You should always have CLAIM (establish youre argument), CONTEXT (give the neessary infromation: who are you quoating and when is it from), QUOTE (evidence), ANALYSIS (how does the quote ilustrate youre claim). Analysis should always be the longest part of paragraph. Introductuon must explain what are you going to talk about in paper and conlusion must sumarrize what you said in essey. No quotes needed in introduction and conlusion.
paper must chronologically talk about native fight for their freedom and soverinity from termination era to modern days. Which means 1.politics 2.economics (must mention gambling) 3.cultur
Sovereignty and Self-Determination: Native America from the Second Half of the Twentieth Century to the Present
The second half of the twentieth century began with the threat of Termination and ended with Native people asserting their sovereignty. Termination prompted a vigorous response from Native Americans. Forging self-belief through activism, participating in pan- tribal organizations and movements, and advocating for the rights of Native nations, indigenous peoples have claimed their place in American society. At the heart of indigenous activism is sovereignty, and Native nations have tried to make that sovereignty real by practicing economic, cultural, and political self-determination. Legal activism, land claims, Indian gaming, and the repatriation of Native remains and artifacts have all featured prominently in efforts aimed at self-determination. In this exam you must explain the Native push for political, economic, and cultural self-determination beginning in the 1950s and extending to the present day, and the challenges to Native sovereignty by the federal government and the larger, non-native, American society.
Exam Guidelines:
These approximately 7 page (2100–2300 word) papers are to be rigorous and nuanced analyses of the assigned texts. The purpose of this exam is for you to demonstrate your understanding of the history of the period and to show how carefully and thoroughly you have done the reading. In this exam you must quote—not just paraphrase—all SEVEN sources we have read after the midterm: chapters 5,6, and 7 of “We Are Still Here,” chapters 9 and 10 of First Peoples and Supplementary Readings 5 and 6. Whatever claims you make in your exam must be supported by textual evidence from the readings. Papers will be graded according to the knowledge of the readings, the understanding of the history, the persuasiveness of the arguments, and the clarity of the writing. You must have two quotes from the sources in every chapter except for the first and last paragraphs.
Citation Instructions:
The citation instructions for this paper are unique to this assignment but they are part of the grade and must be followed. For “We Are Still Here” the citation must be a brief abbreviation followed by a chapter number: (WA, ch 2). Do the same with First Peoples: (FP, ch 7). For the supplementary reading you just need to include which number it is: (Supp 3). The usual rules of attribution should be followed, authors or speakers should be mentioned in the text. For example: “Calloway argues” or “Iverson and Davies maintain” or “Dorothy Peche explains” and so forth.
Structure of paragraph is really importnat. You should always have CLAIM (establish youre argument), CONTEXT (give the neessary infromation: who are you quoating and when is it from), QUOTE (evidence), ANALYSIS (how does the quote ilustrate youre claim). Analysis should always be the longest part of paragraph. Introductuon must explain what are you going to talk about in paper and conlusion must sumarrize what you said in essey. No quotes needed in introduction and conlusion.
paper must chronologically talk about native fight for their freedom and soverinity from termination era to modern days. Which means 1.politics 2.economics (must mention gambling) 3.cultur