Carefully examine the claim that is being made. If the claim is false, refute it with expert opinion.

ENC1102: COMPOSITION II 818

Assignment Details:

For this assignment, you will use the online platform Medium to create a multimedia composition with 500-600 words of text. Your Medium composition will evaluate a fake news story that has circulated widely on the Internet. You can find these stories by reading some posts on your own Face book page, or you can look at some of the fake news websites for ideas. Wikipedia has a good chart showing some of the most common sites to send out fake news. You can also visit Snopes for links to some of the fake news articles they have researched.

Wikipedia Fake News Websites Snopes – links to fake news articles Steps

1. Find a fake news story that you would like to research.
2. Google the topic and see what information you can find from some of the fact checking websites.
3. Focus on the image(s) and see if you can find where and when these were first published online.
4. Carefully examine the claim that is being made. If the claim is false, refute it with expert opinion.
5. Take notes on the above materials and begin drafting your essay.