WRT 109 Paper #5, Fall 2004

Rebecca Moore Howard
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WRT 109, Practices of Academic Writing
Fall 2004
Time: TTh 1-2:20
Place: 213B HB Crouse
Course website: http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/Syllabi/109F04/Syl109F04.html

Assignment, Paper #5

How are poliblogs affecting online U.S. mainstream media coverage of the Presidential debates?

In class on October 19, we broke the question down into some component tasks, and divided up the work:

1. Analyzing how the blogs covered debates: Jana, Darryl, Jackie, Chris
2. Analyzing how the blogs covered conventions: Jana, Darryl, Jackie, Chris
3. Analyzing how the mainstream media covered debates: Maggie, Heather, Sass, Kim
4. Analyzing how the mainstream media covered conventions: Maggie, Heather, Sass, Kim
5. Analyzing how the mainstream media blogs covered debates: David, Wittenberger, Tom, Christine
6. Analyzing how the mainstream media blogs covered conventions: David, Wittenberger, Tom, Christine
7. Analyzing how mainstream media are describing the differences between the two: Matt, Lisa, Nayda
8. Analyzing how blogs are describing the differences between the two: Matt, Lisa, Nayda

For your last major writing assignment in WRT 109, you will present your answer to the question "How are poliblogs affecting online U.S. mainstream media coverage of the Presidential debates?" Some or all of the component questions will undoubtedly inform your argument.

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