Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the workplace

Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the workplace.

Purpose
The purposes of this assignment are:
● To gain a basic understanding of a current labor issue
● To practice finding and evaluating journalistic sources
● To begin distinguishing between journalistic and scholarly sources
● To connect your learning in this class to your experiences outside the classroom
● To investigate a labor issue that has personal relevance or interest for you

Task
You will choose one current (within the past two years) work/labor issue of interest to you, and locate three news articles from reliable sources that discuss this issue. Then, you will write a brief essay explaining the relevance of this issue to your own life, and what you learn about the movement from reading journalistic sources.

Criteria
Your essay should meet the following criteria:
● Provides a brief (no more than half page) description of the issue.
● Describes, in about one page, what we learn about the issue from reading your news articles.
● Analyzes connections between course material and your personal experience (about one page each).
○ Provide an in-depth explanation of how this issue is relevant to your own life, explicitly using one or more concepts from our class.
● Follows conventions of formal academic writing in English.
● Follows basic essay structure (introduction, thesis statement, roadmap, topic sentences, conclusion, etc.).
● Carefully proofread for spelling, punctuation, grammar, and other mechanical errors.
● Minimum of 1500 words
● Formatted according to the guidelines in the syllabus.
● Proper APA-style in-text citations and references list in format. Citations do not count toward paper length requirements.
● Uses a minimum of three news articles from reliable, credible sources.
○ See the Media Bias Chart for one way to identify reliable news sources. Please do not use sites below the middle horizontal line (32.00 on the y-axis).