Business

Assignment General Instructions The purpose of this assignment is for students to find a new story that talks about the international business environment as its relates to the country they signed up for.

Country News Post Grading Criteria and Breakdown

Maximum number of points for the News Post = 25 points.

- If nothing is turned in by the deadline = 0 points

- If the post is made by the deadline, the 25 points are distributed as follows:

- The first 10 points will be a link to a reputable news source with the

publishing date (see examples of reputable news sources in this syllabus).

The TA must be able to access the article to get credit!

- The second 15 points relates to the two paragraphs required for the

assignment. Each paragraph is worth 7.5 points.

- 7.5 points for the first paragraph where the piece of news is discussed; to get full

credit, you need to write a full paragraph (one sentence is not sufficient) where

you present a summary of the article you read/news segment you listened to or

watched; the article/news segment must have been published within the last

month; grammar and spelling mistakes will be penalized if they make the text

difficult to follow;

- 7.5 point s for the second paragraph where the source of news is analyzed. what is

the audience targeted by that news source; can you identify any inherent biases

that news source may have (for example: do they have an agenda and if so, what

is it; who is their target audience; do they have a particular political leaning; do

they express the views of the owner, who is the owner and what are their views;

are they pro- or against a particular country or policy issue). This second

paragraph can be shorter, sometimes a couple of sentences may suffice as long as

the required content is covered.