Week 2 Discussion Board

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These weekly discussion boards form the basis of the weekly instruction and interaction in class. Every week, you will post information about two articles that you have read on a designated weekly topic. Over the next few days, read two articles from reliable, mainstream news outlets about global political systems, as that is the topic we will take up next week. By global political systems, we are talking about the major forms of world governments. As you compare and contrast these ideologies and approaches to power, authority, and policy, your independent readings will consider the structures and dynamics of governance and the problems of contemporary global politics and institutions.

Your initial post about your readings will use the following format:

• APA References Citation - For help with formatting an APA citation, examine these resources at the Student Success Center -- Research, Plagiarism, and APA Resources. You will find a quick style guide and paper templates.
• Summary of Article A four to seven-sentence summary of the article (the main ideas and important details). As you need to pick up the main ideas and important details in your summary, you need to select news articles that are not too long to summarize. Also, do not pick editorials, promotional materials, or marketing materials that are carried on PR or University news wires (these distribute press releases), or anything that is clearly labeled as the opinion only. You want articles that contain solid information -- news articles. Finally, you dont want long multi-page scholarly articles for these brief, right-to-the-point reading assignments. Those scholarly articles are appropriate for your research, but not in these news-oriented reading assignments.
• Reaction A Four to seven-sentence reaction to the article. This is where you present your reaction to the information. You can also comment on the quality of the coverage, biases in it, questions left unanswered, questions left unasked, or any number of other questions. What you can't do is just say you liked it or not. You need to have a reaction to the article. It could be how this was new to you or presented a different perspective. Or you may want to share a different perspective or add new information