For this assignment, you will produce a 750-1000 word essay that analyzes your relationship with information after reading the two articles I have provided for you: “How Librarians Can Fight Q’Anon” and “Everyday Googling.” You should tell a general audience about your experience engaging with information and integrate information from the two articles using summary, paraphrase, and/or direct quotes. (*You may also include Eli Pariser’s TED Talk if you wish, but you must cite this source.) Be sure to introduce the authors and their credentials when you use their ideas and cite the page numbers or paragraph number you found the information in. The sources should be the focus of your writing. (Please do not use any other sources other than the three provided for you in this essay.)
As you write, consider the audience of this essay to be a college-education individual who is not in our class and who has not read the sources I have provided for you.
You should cite the sources you used in your essay using either MLA or APA style. I have provided tutorials below to help you cite these sources using the Microsoft References Tool. If you have not yet download Microsoft Word, you will need to now.
Here are some guiding questions to help you analyze your relationship to information:
When you have a question, where do you go first to find an answer?
Where do you generally go to get your news?
When you read information on social media, do you fact-check to make sure that the information is true?
Can you think of a time where you read, or spread, misinformation?
Why, do you think, it is so easy to spread conspiracy theories?
The focus of this essay is on use of sources (your ability to introduce sources of information; use paraphrase, summary, and direct quotes; and distinguish between your ideas and the ideas of others). Link to one of the three sources
