given a link to a case $$ for bad Yelp (Links to an external site.). You are to assess this link, following the 7 steps below. To do this assignment, you must read my CRITICAL READING notes which define and explain the concepts of the 7 different steps.
7 STEPS
- Establish Provenance, if source is an online news source, is there a parent commercial news resource?
- Identify unknown terms or people or groups that the reporter has not explained.
- Note any vagueness or ambiguity.
- Note any speculation.
- Identify one month background history of the event. Local (Silicon Valley) event? American event? Foreign event? Recent event or over 6 months ago? The closer the event is to you now in time & place, the less extra background history you have to find.
- Note tone: upset, angry, sarcastic, or cool and objective?
- Note terms of probability, possibility, and conditionality.
SAMPLE FORMAT OF RESULT
- Provenance: This website is commercially published by The New Beach Daily Mail in Miami, Florida. The link is reporting news of EFF, an organizational group with strong bias in favor of user rights and free speech. Yes guys, EFF is local, of course.; etc. . . .
- Unknown Terms: 4th Amendment statement: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Jeff Bezos: is CEO of Amazon. (be sure guys to actually look up any wording of laws mentioned in a case.)
- Vagueness/Ambiguity: stated the vagueness, explained it, etc.
- Speculation: stated the speculation and explained why it is speculative.
- Background History: place and time of event, added any needed info.
- Tone: stated whether there was anger, hostility, sarcasm, etc.
- Modality: stated terms of probability, possibility, or conditionality if any