Should teachers be trained and equipped with firearms in order to prevent school shootings?

Online Assignment #9: Annotated Bibliography

Instructions: This assignment requires you to continue finding and evaluating sources to incorporate into your final paper.

Topics: Should teachers be trained and equipped with firearms in order to prevent school shootings?

(1)          To complete this assignment, you will need to find at least 6 different sources that you plan to use in your final paper.  Academic articles, books, and primary documents are all great sources. Newspapers and editorials can also be used, but be selective.

(2)          Provide a reference for each of your 6 sources in (generally) proper APA format, matching the example templates provided. Visit the APA guide at http://libguides.wvu.edu/apafor clarification on APA style.

(3)          Following each reference, provide a paragraph about the source that includes the following information:

?              A brief 1-2 sentence summary of the source’s purpose

?              How you will use the source in your final paper to support your argument

?              Whether the information from that source supports or contradicts other information you have found on the topic

?              Why the source is important to include in your final paper

This assignment aligns with Course Learning Outcome 2.

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to the principles of communication in public contexts. As developed by the Department of Communication Studies, three learning outcome goals are associated with COMM 104. Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

?              Identify the theories, principles, and concepts associated with communication in public contexts;

?              Create messages appropriate to a specific audience, purpose, and context; and

?              Critically analyze messages.

There are objectives specific to this course that serve to facilitate these outcome goals. The objectives associated with this course are:

?              Identify how various communication traits and abilities contribute to effective communication in public contexts;

?              Identify how various communication traits and abilities affect the ways in which we interpret messages in public communication contexts;

?              Construct compelling and logically sound persuasive appeals;

?              Apply systematic approaches and critical thinking to problem solving and argumentation;

?              Identify the role of ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive communication;

?              Identify fallacies to logic and relevance in arguments;

?              Identify ethical approaches to rhetorical communication; and

?              Critically analyze issues confronting society from a rhetorical perspective.