International Issues Paper Instructions–Spring 2016

International Issues Paper Instructions–Spring 2016

International Issues Paper Instructions–Spring 2016You are required to turn in a one paragraph summary of which recent internationalevent you INTEND to write your paper on to your TA on the evening of May 4 (thenight of the midterm).The purpose of this project is to further develop your critical thinking, research skills and toencourage you to delve into an international issue of your choosing. The project consists of twocomponents: a collection of at least four current newspaper articles related to a singleinternational event of your choosing, and 2000 word summary-analysis paper devoted to thearticles you selected for this project. You will also need to include a “works cited” orbibliography page along with hard copies of each of your news articles when you submit youressay on Wed., May 25, 2016.All materials for this project are due to your TA in lecture on Wed., May 25, 2016. Late paperswill lose 10 points for each day they are late.Purpose of the Paper (Examining the Production of Contemporary Historiography) – The goalof this paper is to allow you to analyze how “historiography” is an ongoing process largelyinfluenced by the news media. History is a subjectively generated product. History incorporatesthe biases and viewpoints of those who produce it. The news media today is a key source inproviding us with “meaning” connected to newsworthy “historical” events. In fact, the newsmedia is in fact a major part of the process that generates “history.” Although news mediareporters and editors frequently claim that they are presenting “just the facts,” the way in whichthese “facts” are presented often carry a number of biases that strongly influence publicperception and interpretations of current events.For this assignment, you are going to pick a specific, single international event and examine howthis event is presented by different news media sources from around the globe. You are beingasked to compare the articles you have selected for this assignment and discuss how the differingways in which the event you have chosen actually reflects more than the “plain” facts, but ratherreveals complex layers of social values, assumptions, biases, beliefs and meanings by each ofyour articles’ authors.Selecting a Topic1) First, select a single international news event that has occurred in the past 60 days. Since thepurpose of the paper is to address international issues, the event you select for this assignmentmust have occurred OUTSIDE of the United States (although the issue may INCLUDE the USas one of the agents involved). There are numerous current news issues to choose from, but forthis project I strongly suggest that you choose an event of a political or social nature.If you are struggling to find a topic for this paper, you may want to check out respected newssources online such a CNN, BBC, Al-Jazeera, etc. to get a sense of current news events that arerelevant to this assignment. 2) Your topic should be a single, recent event, not an ongoing issue. For example, you mightchoose to discuss a recent, single action that took place in Egypt or Afghanistan or Syria or theUkraine or the Central African Republic, but you may NOT choose the overall, ongoing violencein Afghanistan or Syria or the Ukraine or The Central African Republic as your topic. Forexample, you could choose a single recent protest, or meeting or act of violence that has recentlyoccurred in Syria as your event for this paper, but you may not choose the ongoing civil war inSyria as your topic. A recent election, a newly approved law or act of legislation (outside of theUS) an international meeting, the signing of a treaty or international agreement, a single act ofviolence, a recent missile test, a recent day of protest or a recent military action that took placeon a single day. However, any paper that tries to address the entirety of the Iraq or Afghan War,the Arab Spring, Peace in the Middle East, Aids in Africa, poverty in India, International gayrights, international human rights, human trafficking in Southeast Asia or drug trafficking inMexico are all too broad for this assignment and are not appropriate topics. You need to choosesomething much smaller – a single action or event – as a topic for this assignment. For example,you could pick some relatively small, particular portion of an issue to focus on, such as areaction to a controversial law that has just been passed, or a particular act of violence thatrecently occurred, or a recent meeting between heads of state or a recent foreign election, or arecent military intervention, etc. Also, please do not choose a sporting event, a natural disaster,health crisis or outbreak of disease for this assignment.You may NOT write your paper about the missing Malaysian Airline flight MH 370.Selecting Articles3) You will need to have collected at least four newspaper articles on the SAME EVENT fromDIFFERENT nations. You are only permitted to use one article from a US newspaper source andyour other three article choices should be on the same event but each one must be selected from aDIFFERENT newspaper and from a DIFFERENT nation. In other words, each article youchoose will come from a different nation’s newspaper, but all four articles must still be focusedon the same event and should have been published within 48 hours of each other.. This willenable you to distinguish how a particular event is presented differently in various newspapersfrom around the world. You may use online versions of newspaper articles. The articles shouldnot be more than 60 days old when you submit your final paper. Please do not use op-ed pieces(articles from the opinion or editorial section of a newspaper or other form of media) for thisassignment. You will need to submit hard copies of each of your newspaper articles when yousubmit your completed assignment.Conclusion: Write a 2000 word Project Summary-Critique4) WRITE a 2000 minimum word (double spaced, medium size 10 –12 font, standard margins)in which you provide a summary and comparison of the different articles you have selected forthis assignment. You will search for differing emphases and patterns between your articles, andyou will consider the differing impact each individual article might make on its reader depending on how the issue is presented and handled by each author. You are to examine andcritique the differing ways in which the issue is being presented in your articles.Also, for this paper, you need to consider how the news reports of today become the“historiography” of tomorrow. This is an opportunity for you to think critically about how thenews is presented to the reader in each newspaper. Do you have a sense that certain “facts” arebeing emphasized in one article while those same facts are dismissed or ignored or presentedsomewhat differently by the authors in some of your other selected articles? Do you have a sensethat only one particular side of the issue is being presented in a particular article? If so, why doyou think this is happening? In what ways has the event you have selected for this assignmentbeen reported differently in each of your articles? (Keep in mind that these differences may besubtle). In what way might these differences influence the reader to draw a different conclusionabout the event? A particular new article will often (though not always) tend to focus on onlyside of an issue. Which sides of the issue do you see being presented in your different articles?Why do you think this might this be happening? In what way might ethnocentric perspectives ornational interests be influencing how the issue is being presented differently in each of yourarticles? Do you see any biases built into the way that the issue is being presented or reported bythe authors of your articles?Finally, what have you learned through this process? What have

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