Recording and analyzing your media consumption HW

For this assignment, you will be recording and analyzing your media consumption for three consecutive days. This assignment has two parts; both should be submitted in a SINGLE Word document in the Homework Dropbox.

Part 1: Media Journal

For three consecutive days, you are to record every media interaction you have in a simple log. Here is an example:

At the end of your three-day measurement period, calculate the following:

Total usage for each medium (television, Internet, books, magazines, newspapers, etc.).

Total usage for all media combined.

Part 2: Essay

In a detailed essay summarize what you learned from the media logging exercise. Some items to address in your essay:

What did you learn about your interaction with the mass media over those three days?

Who owns the media you interacted with most? How about least?

Were you surprised by anything your media log revealed about your consumption habits?

Students are expected to engage the course material as evidenced by the use of key terms, concepts, and quotations from the assigned readings. Students are encouraged to use outside sources, too. Be sure to cite all sources in APA format.

Assignment Guidelines

The length of the analysis should be 1-3 pages in length and all parts of the assignment need to be submitted in a single Microsoft Word document.

When you cite your sources, use APA citation and reference style.

Spell check your paper before turning it in. Read your paper before turning it in. Be sure to watch out for grammar and spelling error

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.