Forensic Science in the News

Forensic Science in the News
ARTICLE LINKS: PLEASE WRITE A SUMMARY IN THE LIGHT OF FORENSIC SCIENCE ON THIS STORY. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51759981 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/us/angie-dodge-christopher-tapp.html
ASSIGNMENT REQUIREMENT
Current Event time! Find an article from a reputable source (news paper, TV news show, journal or magazine).
Blog posts, unsubstantiated opinions from your friend’s facebook page, and podcasts by non-forensic professionals are not reputable sources.
The article can talk about forensic science as a discipline, the application of forensic science in the real world, or the use of forensic science in a case.
If you find want to submit something from a news source that is in a language other than English, that’s great but you will need to submit a translation – and it needs to be a real translation, not just a quick run through google translate. You can submit the translated version as your article, or you can submit a translation you’ve done yourself.
Try to use something that was written within the last 3-4 years – the more current, the better.
To complete this extra credit assignment, you will need to submit two documents.
1) Submit a copy of the article, or transcript of the show via pdf.
You shouldn’t type this up yourself, it should be provided by the article or story.
If you are on a newspaper or news TV show site there is often a printer icon that you can use to get the pdf or you can get a copy of the article by “ctrl + p” printing the screen. Instead of selecting the printer to print the article out on, you can select the “printer” option to ‘print as a pdf’.
Upload the copy of this article or transcript – do not just provide the link!
2) Submit a summary of the article and discuss its forensic applications. Summarize the article/episode
Discuss the forensic aspect(s) of the article.
For example, you can draw parallels between what you have read and what you have learned in class, or perhaps talk about how forensics was applied to this particular case.
You can also offer your opinion about the forensics of the article, but the opinion needs to be about the forensic part of the article and not anything else.
Your written portion of this assignment should be a few paragraphs long.
As long as you adequately address both prompts – summarize and discuss – you should receive full credit.
I expect you to use college-level writing skills for this assignment.
Check your grammar and spelling, use proper punctuation. No slang, emojis, etc.
No swearing.
Choose a font and font size that are appropriate.
You can single or double space – whatever you prefer.
There is no word limit for this assignment so don’t try and pull any of those tricks to try and turn five sentences into a full page – it’s just sad when students do that.
The points earned from completing this extra credit will not be added into your final grade for the class until the end of finals week. Canvas is not set up in a way for me to add the points in before that.
Don’t hesitate to ask any questions, and I’m happy to look at an article (if you want to email it to me beforehand) to let you know if it’s okay for this assignment.