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COM 530 Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubrics

For this second milestone, which supports the successful completion of your final project, you will pick the topic that you plan to use for the case study that you will feature in your handbook. You are required to pick a real and controversial dilemma in digital communication today. It can be an incident or a general issue that currently pervades the communication industry and should illustrate the importance of at least one of the “ethical guidelines” for ethical and legal communication in the field that you wrote about in Milestone One.

You can use Media Ethics: Issues and Cases (Patterson, Wilkins, & Painter) to choose cases or ideas; but, you cannot use any of the following cases that we will be covering elsewhere in this course

5A - Drones and the News

6D – WikiLeaks 8A - Killing a Journalist On-Air: A Means-End Test

2H – What's Yours Is Mine

This assignment was designed to support your successful completion of section IV: Case Study in the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric.

Prompt: In your milestone submission, include the following critical elements:

 Provide a title and summary of your incident/issue and why you chose it.  Describe the legal and ethical issues you believe are present in this case.  A justification of why this topic is important and worth studying  List at least three potential sources that are relevant to your chosen topic. Include a brief description of how you will incorporate the information found

in each into your final project, due in Week 9. Don’t just list the textbooks! Seek other sources. Be specific about exactly how you’ll use these resources in the final project

Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 2–4-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one- inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.

Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Summary of Incident/Issue in the Case and Explanation

of Rationale

Meets “Proficient” criteria and provides insights about the incident/issue and a depth of understanding about the rationale for choosing

Provides a summary of the incident/issue and provides rationale for its choice

Provides a summary of the incident/issue but summary lacks information about the topic or does not fully explain rationale for choosing

Does not provide an adequate summary or an appropriate rationale for the choice of the incident/issue

20

Description of Ethical and Legal Issues in

the Case

Meets “Proficient” criteria and demonstrates a depth of understanding about the ethical and legal issues present in the case

Describes ethical and legal issues that are present in the case using specific examples

Describes ethical or legal issues in the case, or description is cursory or contains some inaccuracies

Does not describe ethical and legal issues present in this case

25

Explanation of Topic Relevance to Digital

Communication

Meets “Proficient” criteria and demonstrates a depth of understanding about how the topic is currently relevant to digital communication

Explains why the topic is relevant to current digital communication

Explains why the topic is relevant to current digital communication but explanation is cursory or contains some inaccuracies

Does not provide a clear explanation about why the topic is relevant to current digital communication

25

Resources Provides a list of scholarly resources that are relevant to the chosen topic and includes information about how the resources will be used in relation to the topic

Provides a list of scholarly resources planned for use discussing the topic

Lists fewer than three scholarly resources planned for use discussing the topic

Does not include list of resources

25

Articulation of Response

Submission is free of errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is presented in a professional and easy-to-read format

Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization

Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas

5

Total 100%