text-based research paper

The topic for the third paper will be News Media. Your major project for this third unit is to write a text-based research paper in which you start with a research question related to our discussions on news media.

1）This question should prompt you to investigate a topic dealing with a specific issue related to the news media. 2)Your research will require collecting facts, opinions, and perspectives from various texts. 

3）You will also need to identify grounds for grouping the textual components and to organize this textual material under one or more controlling themes.

4）The purpose of this paper is to explore the topic and attempt to answer your research question a objectively as possible.

 5）In your paper, you must synthesize a minimum of three outside sources. Two of these sources must be an articles found by using the full-text databases (i.e. Proquest, Lexis/Nexus). I must be able to tell that they are from the databases by looking at your APA reference page. You are welcome to use one or more of the readings from the textbook in your essay, but you will still need to find three outside sources.  

6）Your essay must be six to seven pages long, including a title page and reference page, and follow APA format.