PROMPT: Use your critical reading, writing, & thinking skills to undertake a critical analysis of news media to make an argument about how a human rights issue is framed in news media coverage of a current event ((in this case, the event of Hong Kong activist, Agnes Chow, decided to jump bail and fled to Canada))
An outline is attached to show you the structure of this essay.
STEP 1: Introduce the event of Hong Kong activist, Agnes Chow, decided to jump bail and fled to Canada
– Posing a refined, open-ended, arguable research question about how your chosen human rights issue is framed in news media coverage of this event.
– What has happened in this event that violates your sense of human rights? Which of these events have been covered in global news media? What are the background of this event?
STEP 2: Choose a human right
– Read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Attached). Select the article that is most relevant for the issue raised by the current event.
STEP 3: Analyze the 3 attached news articles()
1st news article: www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202312/06/WS656fd312a31090682a5f1ac1.html.
2nd news article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/world/asia/hong-kong-agnes-chow-activist.html
3rd news article: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/agnes-chow-hong-kong-pro-democracy-activist-canada-5m9mbgd6g
– Use the questions found on the Abstract & Annotated Bibliography worksheet (Attached) to analyze how your news articles frame your human right
– Answering the question by considering other views (counterargument), making an assertion about the issue (argument/thesis), and backing up that assertion with compelling and logical reasons.
STEP 4: Ground in scholarship
– Find at least 2 peer-reviewed journal articles on your topic. Explain how they relate to your topic and the event
STEP 5: Opposition and rebuttal
– Consider at least one alternative view to your assertion (or, to think of it another way, present at least one additional possible answer to the question that you’ve posed). This is your opposition, also known as your counterargument. Discuss its merits and flaws fairly, presenting evidence for it. Then show why your argument is stronger, rebutting the counterargument with evidence for your argument. You don’t have to claim that your interpretation is “right” or “true;” you just have to persuade your readers that it is the strongest among competing views.