Instructions NOTE: Documentation and Conventions include the conventions for creating and formatting a newsletter, and the conventions
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COMM2000 (Communicating Across Contexts)
Overview:
Objective:
- In a persuasive piece of writing addressed to an appropriate audience, inform and make a point about an issue impacting members in your community.
Course Learning Outcome(s) Assessed:
- CLO 1 - Analyze a variety of texts that respond to various contexts.
- CLO 2 - Compose written texts that respond to various contexts.
- CLO 3 - Apply research and digital literacy skills.
Writing Situation:
The Local is an award-winning independent magazine known for being "unabashedly Toronto, reporting from corners of the city that are too often ignored or misunderstood." The Local has made a splash on the news media scene with special deep dives into current topics, often from untold or unheard perspectives, such asThe Indigenous Toronto Issue andThe Rent Series.
The Local's next issue will focus on the life of college students in Toronto.The Localwill use their newsletterto promote the upcoming issue, and they have invited youa Toronto college studentto produce their next newsletter. Your newsletter should informreaders of the different perspectives on a problem so that readers walk away with a more nuanced understanding of the topic. The newsletter should make the point that this problem is pressing and matters to the community. The topic does not necessarily have to be school-related.
Instructions:
Write 800 word newsletterfor The Localthat informs readers of the different perspectives on your chosen topic. Make the point that this problem is pressing and matters to the community.
Find and incorporate at least 3 sources into your newsletter.
Your sources need to be incorporated using reporting verbs and narrative citations or in-text citations. You must include a list of references in APA format on a separate page.
Apply what we learned in class about the conventions of a newsletter. Word process your newsletter as an MS WORD document (not PDF). Use Arial 12 as the font. Begin each paragraph with an indented line. Your Newsletter needs to have a Header and two columns. Insert small graphics that add meaning to your statements or that illustrate a point you make and wrap text around them. Place a border around all the content on the page.
Set margins to NORMAL.
Apply what we learned in class about the conventions of a newsletter.
Income Tax Fundamentals 2013
ISBN: 9781285586618
31st Edition
Authors: Gerald E. Whittenburg, Martha Altus Buller, Steven L Gill