Instructions
1. Select a news story about an issue related to social work from a major Canadian news provider (i.e. National Post, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star or CTV)
2. Compose a four to five page paper that answers the following questions about the news story you choose:
• What lexical choices did the writer make and how did they affect the overall meaning of the text?
• Are issues represented in a binary fashion (i.e. good versus bad) or are readers given multiple and nuanced options for understanding the news story? Explain/justify all elements of your response.
• Who is quoted in the news story? Whose voices are excluded? Are those most affected by the events in the news story given voice (i.e. social work clients, welfare recipients, Indigenous people, single mothers, etc.)? Explain the impacts for those that are included and for those that may be excluded.
