Assignments
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What is the Voices of ACES
The News Gazette runs a story about an Urbana farmer winning a national award for sustainable agriculture practices.
What is an example of a story with proximity
This is a misleading or unsound argument, often based on flawed reasoning or logic.
What is a Fallacy?
How the pyramid is arranged for journalistic and PR style writing.
What is inverted?
This approach encourages you to ask critical questions about the messages you consume, rather than just accepting them at face value.
What is media literacy?
This assignment is the first of two group projects you'll complete for AGCM 220.
What is the agricultural issues assignment?
The Secretary of Agriculture visits the University of Illinois to speak about climate-smart farming.
What is an example of a story with prominence
This fallacy suggests that one small step will inevitably lead to a chain of related (and usually negative) events.
What is a slippery slope fallacy?
These are two items of food used to describe two different kinds of stories, the kind people want and the kind they don't.
What is chocolate and broccoli?
What is investigating access?
Completed in August, this 15 point assignment ensured you understood the purpose and expectations of AGCM 220.
What is the Syllabus Quiz.
A heated debate erupts between organic farmers and conventional producers over pesticide regulations at the Illinois Statehouse in Springfield.
What is an example of a story with conflict?
This fallacy argues that something must be correct or better simply because it has always been done that way.
What is appeal to tradition?
Media content (like an article) can be either this or trending.
What is evergreen?
What is a process?
This 100-point assignment asks you to take a clear stance on an agricultural issue, revise your draft, and annotate your changes.
What is an Opinion-Editorial?
A breaking news report about a sudden outbreak of avian flu affecting poultry farms.
What is an example of a timely story?
This fallacy occurs when a conclusion is drawn from insufficient or biased evidence.
What is a hasty generalization?
The style guide used by the University of Illinois and Illinois Public Media.
What is AP (Associated Press) Style?
In the first week of class we talked about agriculture as essential for this, and communications as essential for that.
What is civilization and socialization?
You'll listen to a 20 minute press conference to be able to write this final assignment for AGCM 220.
What is a Science Feature? Also accept: Science Communication Article.
A story about using AI guided drones to teach cows how to find the best grazing spots.
What is an example of a story with novelty?
This fallacy misrepresents someone’s argument to make it easier to attack.
What is straw man fallacy?
his three-part strategy helps writers ensure their audience understands the story by answering: What happened? So, what? And what should happen next?
What is the triple what?
Moving away from linear models of communication, most people accept this new model of communication, called this.