Columnist/Precis Assignment

Links to the assignment and columnist web sites are below.

As a means of keeping abreast of public discourse issues, you are required to follow a national columnist in a newspaper. You must collect six current, preferably consecutive columns by your author. On my web site you will find links to columnists and journalistic web sites where you will find the name of a specific columnist and a link to her/his work.    Archives can be searched on some of the columnist’s sites, but many publications require payment for articles older than one or two weeks. Therefore, check your columnist’s web site weekly.

Columnist/Precis Assignment (pdf file)
Here is the handout. You will find links to helpful websites below.

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