“Exploring Professional Magazines: A Report on an Article in the Field” Title: “Exploring Databases: A Lesson Plan for Researching and Citing Sources”

Professional Magazine Report 
Due Jun 11 by 11:59pm
Points 20
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Important terminology to understand first:
-Popular Magazines=like Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Cosmo, Men’s Health; are written for general audiences. They offer relatively short articles that provide general coverage of topics. Articles are written by journalists. 
-Professional Magazines= magazines whose target audience are people who work in a particular profession, trade, or industry. They can usually be accessed by subscription only, but some have free issues offered online. Topics may include current issues, events, and trends in that particular field.  Professional magazines often contain regular columns of news and commentary, and sometimes “how to” articles, and valuable, practical advice for practitioners in a given area. Articles are usually written by specialists in the field.
For your first paper, I would like you to select an article that interests you from a professional magazine in your field, then provide a short report and discussion of it. 
ORGANIZATION
Introduction: Start off by introducing the article: Name of article, author, what magazine it appeared in, publication date, and who the target audience is for this magazine. Then provide a summary/describe what the article was about in your own words (but do cite if you include any specific information from the article).
Body: In the body, discuss what all you learned from the article? How such knowledge might be beneficial to you in your future career? Why this article was of particular interest to you?
I would also like to hear: if you were going to teach a lesson about this subject matter to a class of students in your same major/field, how might you set up the lesson? Consider various methods of instruction: lecture, handouts, video, group work, student presentations, assignments like papers and tests, etc. Detail what all you would include, in what order you would present information, etc.
Here is an example. A nursing student read an article about the growing number of nonsmokers being diagnosed with lung cancer. The purpose of the article was to encourage nurses to be aware of this increase and take note of patients who may seem to have some of the obvious symptoms of lung cancer but are often dismissed by care providers because they have never smoked. Her lesson plan included a 10-minute lecture of the recent research findings about lung cancer. Then showing a YouTube video she found about the early signs of lung cancer to educate nurses. Then more lecture on best questions to ask patients to assess their risk factors, and finally, role playing to practice how they might discuss this issue with their patients. The last part of the lesson included an assignment in which students were asked to find an article written in the last 10 years about lung cancer diagnoses in nonsmokers and present it to the class.
Conclusion: For the conclusion, I would like you to look for articles in KCC’s library databases that have to do with the same or a similar topic. Report on just one of these articles, first introducing it with its name, author, and what periodical it originally appeared in, then explaining what that article included that either expanded your understanding of the issue or simply addressed different aspects of it. Provide one or two quotes from the article.
MLA Documentation Style: When you refer to specific information from either article in the form of paraphrase or quote, you need to cite that information in the paper itself (and provide a Works Cited page).
Length: 2 pages  Sources: 2 (main article and one cited in the conclusion)
Rubric
Updated Professional Magazine Report
Updated Professional Magazine Report
Criteria Ratings
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeIntro: introduce article, target audience, summary
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeBody paragraph: includes what you learned, how beneficial, why you were interested in it, and lesson plan
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeConclusion: reports on a database source
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeProperly cited in MLA
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeFully Developed: 2 full pages
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeCarefully proofread for errors