The Printing Press and Its Political Impact

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For Assignment 1, you should find one original article about the Battles of Lexington and Concord published in a colonial newspaper around the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. Before you start your research, please read all of the instructions carefully and e-mail your instructor if you have any questions. Here’s a stepby-step plan describing how to complete this assignment. Step #1: Prepare for Historical Research Review the textbook readings and Lesson 1 to get a sense of what was happening in the colonies right before and during the American Revolutionary War. Listen (or read the transcript) to the National Public Radio (NPR) interview with Todd Andrlik https://www.npr.org/2012/11/25/165649596/old-newspapers-new-perspectives-on-the-american-revolution , author of Reporting the American Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News. Andrlik offers valuable insights into colonial journalism and helpful advice about how to read stories published in colonial newspapers. Plan your research strategies for finding an article published in a colonial newspaper about this topic. Write down the important dates, locations, potential keywords, and other methods that you might be able to use to focus your research. Take some time at this stage to tailor your research strategies, because it will save you a lot of time when you start your primary research. Here’s what you need to do next to complete the assignment. Create a Word document and enter your full name at the top of page. Record the bibliographic citation to the article that you selected, using this citation style: author’s name (if listed); headline (if any); the newspaper’s name and location; the date of the article; the page number; the database that you used; and the date of your search. (Please don’t clutter the citation with other miscellaneous details.) Bibliographic information usually is found in the heading above the item in the database. For some databases, you’ll need to click on page images to see the original page of the publication and to find the page number. If bibliographic information is not available, then that’s an indication that it is a secondary source (not a primary historical source) and you’ll need to search again for an original article. Explain briefly (one or two sentences) why you selected the article. Be specific. This step is designed to help you make sure that the article you selected fulfills the assignment’s requirements. Analyze (three to four paragraphs) whether the article and the newspaper that you selected illustrate Andrlik’s ideas about colonial journalism. Be sure to browse through the full-text page images of the newspaper selected for examples to support your analysis. You do not need to summarize the article, but you do need to browse through the full issue of the newspaper in order to write the analysis. Proofread carefully. Upload your assignment, including a readable copy of the article that you selected or a working hyperlink to it, to the COM 340 website. Please check to see that your assignment uploaded successfully, because you are responsible for making sure that it is posted on the website by the deadline. If you have trouble uploading your assignment, please e-mail me before the deadline. 7/4/2019 Writers Hub – Freelance Writing https://www.writershub.org/writer/orders/444148#instructions 4/4 Be sure to save a copy of your work. I have uploaded the primary source and here is the citation for the primary source. “LEXINGTON AND CONCORD.” P