1. Topic: Heart Disease. According to the American Heart Association, Feb.3 is National Wear Red Day. ISU students can support their fellow peers that have been affected by heart disease and also show some support. Spreading awareness and tribute to those who have lost their lives or are struggling even today. Students can inform themselves on how to lower their risks for this disease.
2. Links to example stories:
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/25/not-age-or-race-but-risk-factors-determine-cardiovascular-destiny/?iref=allsearch (www.cnn.com)
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/?gclid=CLORxbK08K0CFYZrKgodmnLpsQ (www.heart.org)
http://blogs.webmd.com/heart-disease/
http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/coronary-heart-disease/overview.html
(www.health. nytimes.com)
3. I am working with blogs, medical articles, and television news.
You have a great larger topic--and especially relevant for the month of February. Here are some of my thoughts on this:
ReplyDelete1. What is a more narrow focus for your topic? That is, how exactly will you connect it back to ISU students? Is there a student group working with this? Do you know students who have a history of heard disease in their families?
2. Be careful with some of your examples. While all are great as "sources" for background information, not all can be analyzed for the news article format because not all are news articles.
3. These are three broad "genres" that you've chose, but you'll probably only work newspaper/print articles. The focus here isn't on blogs, as thery are written very differently than other articles.