Balanced Approach in Journalism: The Case of The U.S. Analysis

Please upload a document in .docx or .pdf format. Don't forget to swap you draft with your peer review partner.
§ First draft for peer-review [15%]
In this phase, you will be bringing together the prior phases of the project into a cohesive draft in the format of a very short journal article. Keep in mind the conception of the project is a pilot study that later would be able to be expandable into a full-scale project, such as for a conference presentation, major class project, or senior thesis, and so forth.
The write-up of the pilot study will begin with a brief introduction that summarizes the primary theme and/or motivating question/object of study in your project, the kind of data/observations that were/will be analyzed, and the primary results or findings that your data/observations seem to point to, or what you suspect you will find if you continue to analyze more of those data/observations.
A concise and explicit statement of your RQ(s) and hypothesis(-es). This should really only be one-three sentences for each.
Then, you will transition into your review of the literature in which you have summarized 3 academic sources. Recall that the information that this section contains should only be that which is directly relevant to the goals and objectives of your project, and you must summarize this information succinctly and in your own words.
Next, you will describe the methodology to be used and improved upon in the future, describing in detail the process of how the data are collected or observation are made, how they are analyzed to address your RQ and hypothesis, and then highlighting that process by showing examples of whatever the primary material is that your observing (speech, images, text, etc.).
Finally, you will conclude the pilot study report. You will describe how the pilot study could be expanded and improved upon to make it substantial enough to be accepted as a conference presentation, journal article, or senior thesis project. You will use what you learned while developing the pilot study to make an informed speculation as to what you suspect the main findings or contribution to the field of sociolinguistic (or adjacent fields) will be if were continued to expanding and refining the project.
The first draft of your pilot study project report should be structured in the following subsections consistent with the components described immediately above:
Introduction
Review of the literature
RQ & hypothesis
Methods, data analysis with examples
Future directions and conclusions
References (in APA format)
All quotes and references to external research, writing, observations, slides, presentations, or any other author or researchers’ materials, etc., must be cited internally and in the final references section following APA format. If you’re not sure when to cite something, just cite to be safe. If you need help with any aspect of these feel free to consult me, the teaching assistant, or the UB Center for Excellence in Writing.