Environmental Issues- Tap Watter vs. Bottled Water

Environmental Issues- Tap Watter vs. Bottled Water
Paper instructions:
TOPIC: TAP WATER vs. Bottled water

You have just completed coverage of an environmental issue in your community (and you may well be working towards that via your Media Practice assignments this semester). As an independent media-maker, you are needing to explore potential outlets for your finished article, radio piece, video documentary, blog post, multi-media presentation or other format you may be working in. The recent shifts in the coverage of environmental issues at the mainstream level, such as The New York Times, seep down and across to all media. This final paper for the course invites you to imagine where you’d submit your work. More importantly, your research will reveal the state of environmental coverage since the Times made their crucial decision. Your paper explores what your options are, but primarily argues for or against the impact of the environment desk closing. How have things changed since the Times made its decision and to what effect on both media-makers and audiences today? This is the scope of your paper.

This is a “cause/effects” paper, not a term or research paper, nor a comparison/contrast or summary/critique paper.

Length: 6-8 pages, including reference page (but not including title page)

Citation/Paper Formatting: Latest MLA style with in-text citations (no footnotes, other than explanatory text permitted); must include reference page, title page; must be set in 12 pt. font; double spaced; margins should be 1.25” left/right; 1” top/bottom

Your finished paper should have at least three viable sources (if you use Wikipedia, Yahoo News, Answers.com, and other non-peer-reviewed sources, these can only be used in addition to your professionally sourced material—if you are uncertain about your sources, we can talk about them after you submit your annotated bibliography).