University of Central Florida Gun violence Paper

Student Learning Outcomes

Learning Area	Student Learning Outcome
Content knowledge	Demonstrate content knowledge by answering questions about specific content (subject matter) from units studied and incorporate this knowledge when speaking or writing about the content topic.
Reading	Preview a textbook chapter to successfully predict content and organization, annotate several paragraphs in a textbook to locate and identify essential elements, including topic, main idea, topic sentences, details and transitions, paraphrase an article by restating main ideas, and outline an article or section of a textbook to highlight the relationship between ideas and their relative importance.
Writing	write papers that utilize one or more critical thinking skill (i.e. summarizing, responding, evaluating, and synthesizing).
Note-taking	Listen for the relationship between ideas, structural clues, main ideas and key words. Use symbols, abbreviations, and a system of hierarchy. Utilize a note-taking system such as the Cornell method.
Language	Use appropriate language to support summary response, evaluation, and synthesis, and for polite requests in spoken and written communication.
Rhetorical Thought Pattern	Demonstrate the ability to identify the features and language characteristics of summary response, evaluation and rhetorical thought patterns and be able to organize ideas in communication using these patterns.

Important Dates:

Paper Assigned _July 2, 2019_
Paper Due __July 18, 2019__

Topic: In this unit, we have focused on the topic of Media Literacy. In this paper, you will evaluate two television advertisements and two visual ads for credibility and strength of argument.

Media literacy skills help us to:

Identify who created a particular media message
Recognize what the media maker wants us to believe or do
Name the “tools of persuasion” used
Recognize bias, spin, misinformation and lies
Discover the part of the story that’s not being told
Evaluate media messages based on our own experiences, beliefs and values
Create and distribute our own media messages

Procedure:

Step 1: Listening and Note-taking

Watch End Gun Violence youtube video (Links to an external site.)and take notes
WatchDont let Hillary Clinton leave you defenseless (Links to an external site.)and take notes

Step 2: Reading and Note-taking

Read a gun control ad (Links to an external site.) and a gun rights flyer (Links to an external site.) and take notes

Step 3: Summarize and describe

Summarize the written material and describe the audio/visual materials

Step 4: Evaluate the credibility and persuasion.

Use your notes on the videos and written advertisements to:
- Identify who created a particular media message
- Recognize what the media maker wants us to believe or do
- Name the “tools of persuasion” used
- Recognize bias, spin, misinformation and lies
- Discover the part of the story that’s not being told

Step 5: Respond

Connect the material to problems in our present-day world
State your opinion
Relates the material to your life experiences or feelings
Discusses whether the material has changed your perspective in any way?

Step 6: Writing the draft of CTP 2 (Evaluative Response)

Using the notes/thoughts you have from Step 2, Evaluate the media messages based on the credibility and strength of argument, as well as your personal sense of truth and right
Take a look at the paper and be sure it follows all the guidelines on the assignment sheet and the scoring rubric.
Remember that you must include an appropriate reference to the sources each time you refer to them.

Step 7

Make an appointment with a tutor (bringing the assignment sheet and rubric with you) to go over it several days before the due date and make any revisions the tutor suggests.
If theres anything youre still unsure about, make an appointment with your instructor.

Step 8: Formatting your paper and submitting it

Be sure to:

Use size 12 font
Double-space the lines
Have 1 margins on the left, right, top, and bottom of the page
Include your name, your class and section, and the date at the top of the paper.

Submit your paper via Turnitin on Canvas by _____Midnight July 18, 2019__________________________

Assessment: The Critical Thinking Paper is worth 13.3% of the final course grade. The instructor will use a rubric to evaluate the papers. Areas of evaluation will include application of course content, task-related skills, and language use.

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