{"id":203439,"date":"2018-09-14T04:08:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T04:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/bscom-240-week-1-identifying-and-eliminating-bias\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:53:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:53:58","slug":"bscom-240-week-1-identifying-and-eliminating-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/bscom-240-week-1-identifying-and-eliminating-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"BSCOM 240 Week 1 Identifying and Eliminating Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Review\u00a0Ch. 11 and Box 11.2 &#8220;Guidelines for Racial Identification&#8221; of\u00a0Reaching Audiences.\tRead\u00a0the front page of\u00a0The Kelsey Gazette\u00a0and choose one of the headline stories.\tWrite\u00a0a 350- to 700-word paper in which you discuss potential bias in the story you selected and ways you can avoid bias as you conduct your own research. Address the following:\t\t\tIdentify the bias and unethical use of information.\t\t\tWhat criteria could you use to improve the credibility of this story?\t\t\tHow could you rewrite the story to eliminate the bias? Consider that your audience is a general audience consisting of men and women of varying education levels.\t\t\tHow would you adapt your message to an audience made up exclusively of college professors?\t\t\tDiscuss potential areas of bias associated with your own research topic.\tFormat\u00a0your paper consistent with APA guidelines.\tSubmit\u00a0your assignment to the Assignment Files tab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review\u00a0Ch. 11 and Box 11.2 &#8220;Guidelines for Racial Identification&#8221; of\u00a0Reaching Audiences. Read\u00a0the front page of\u00a0The Kelsey Gazette\u00a0and choose one of the headline stories. Write\u00a0a 350- to 700-word paper in which you discuss potential bias in the story you selected and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/bscom-240-week-1-identifying-and-eliminating-bias\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}