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This collection is a pilot project and currently has two books. More books will be added and the collection will continue to grow.
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The Digital Reading Room (DRR) provides access to library and other digital resources that have been selected for participating courses. The DRR is a searchable database and can be used to locate material from other courses and disciplines. As a result, the DRR is a useful tool for students who are writing papers and need to find subject specific information.
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Alberta Women’s Institutes provides, for the first time and in digital format, key historical sources and secondary material for the study of the AWI, one of the oldest rural women’s organizations in the province.
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The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate your mastery of the course material through application, synthesis and evaluation. You will focus on one applied issue about life on the Internet, explore the issue online and create a commented electronic portfolio (e-Portfolio) that includes various forms of media products found online.
For this assignment, you will:
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The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate your mastery of the course material through application, synthesis and evaluation. You will compile an electronic portfolio (e-Portfolio) comprised of evidence that demonstrate three key concepts from Unit 7 and Unit 8 of the course. You will discuss, within the introduction and conclusion of your paper, how these concepts relate to one another and how they contribute to the overall effectiveness of communication processes within an organization.
For this assignment, you will:
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The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate your mastery of the course material through application, synthesis and evaluation. You will engage in an authentic learning task which consists of deconstructing media messages conveyed by a series of media products that will be featured in an electronic portfolio (e-porfolio) that you compile.
Within the context of this assignment, you will:
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The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate your mastery of the course material through application, synthesis and evaluation. You will trace a chosen issue or ongoing event to monitor over several months. It is strongly suggested that you begin as soon as possible after starting the course and continue over at least two months in order to ensure you have scope to gather sufficient material to examine.
For this assignment, you will:
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This scenario is part of a project intended to deepen students’ interactions with basic concepts in the field of communication when they are studying in an asynchronous mode online. The scenario consists of several parts. The first is an encounter with a chatbot, where the student can ask for definitions, examples, illustrations, comparisons and contrasts for key terms and concepts. The second part of the scenario gives students access to debates in video format based on different theories about how communication works.
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The purpose of this assignment is to produce a comparative rhetorical analysis of two news articles on the same subject: one sourced from corporate media and the other sourced from the independent or alternative press. This rhetorical analysis, supported by the TAPor site in the e-Lab’s Virtual Tool Cupboard, focuses on the rhetorical and linguistic choices made by the authors to convey their main messages and how these messages differ, although the topic remains the same. You will also consider how these texts rela
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This assignment can be completed as an alternate to Assignment 1, the short essay.
The purpose of this assignment is to perform a rhetorical analysis of an electronic text that is accessible to your tutor. The introduction of your essay will present the rhetorical situation (as defined below); use an on-line rhetorical analysis tool to deconstruct the content and composition of the message; perform a qualitative semiotic analysis of the content and draw conclusions accordingly. Your finished paper will be 3-4 pages in length and double-spaced.
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The purpose of this assignment is to analyze a film produced and disseminated by the National Film Board that is available to your tutor through streaming. Hundreds of films are available through the NFB website . Interviews with prominent film- and policy-makers as well as discussions of the narrative strategies employed in many Canadian films can be found at this Athabasca University site: Canadian Film Online and on Canadian Film Encyclopedia Site.
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Your response in the rhetorical analysis option should be about 4000 words long, an equivalent length to Option A: questions and case studies.
Analysis of Mission Statement, Vision statement and/or other Corporate Document
The purpose of this assignment is to analyze a corporate document that is available to your tutor – either a text that is readily available on-line or a text that can be scanned and sent to your tutor with your submission.
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The purpose of this assignment is to analyze a cultural policy document published by an established and publically funded arts organization and consider how the content and context relate to pertinent course concepts. The chosen document must be available to your tutor – either a text that is readily available on-line or a text that can be scanned and sent to your tutor with your submission.
