Collect 5 recent (within the last 6 months) newspaper articles relating to the same topic from a newspaper (hard copy or online newpaper), and tell us about them. The topic should be related to business or politics. Make sure your article comes from a newspaper. There are lots of sites that might look like newspapers, but they are different. (Yahoo news, for example, is not a newspaper.) If you choose some of the bigger names, such as New York Times and Washington Post and Japan Times, you will be fine. In each summary, use reported speech at least three times (underlined in the example above).
Summarize each article like the example given in the post above, and give your comment about the article at the end. Your comment should be detailed, informative, and interesting. State the source of each article in the reference list: Number the references according to the article order and number each article too. The reference list should state the article title, the publication in which it appeared, the date, and the source (either the URL or the page # of the newspaper).
The contents and the news reported in each article should be different and published on different days.
After you report on each article in turn, write a paragraph or two in which you comment on the collection of articles as a whole - how the topic developed and what you learned from the assignment.
Possible topics include:
iPhone 6
Alibaba
Sales tax issue in Japan
and many many more
In any case, you should choose your topic by Friday September 26 and email me to tell me what it is. Late emails will receive a penalty.
The assignment is due October 14 at the beginning of class. Articles less than 200 words are not permitted. Each article should go into some detail.
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