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Newspapers offer a wealth of information which, as a student, you can tap on for your Project Work.

In this course you will learn all about newspapers, from understanding the difference between tabloids and broadsheets, to techniques on how to integrate newspaper articles in your Project Work.

Learning objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Identify the common characteristics of newspapers
• Differentiate between the contents of local newspapers
• Identify the different types of articles contained in newspapers
• Use newspaper sources in their Project Work
• Choose appropriate online newspaper resources

Course outline

Module 1:

• Types of newspapers
• Common parts of a newspaper
• Newspapers in Singapore

Module 2:

• Techniques to evaluate the types of newspaper articles

Module 3:

• Accessing the news
• Internet Vs Online Databases Vs Microfilm newspaper sources
• Searching techniques

Module 4:

• Using newspaper resources for your project
• Skimming and scanning newspapers
• Note-taking and paraphrasing
• Citing newspaper sources