20 Sep Your writings must demonstrate creativity and critical thinking.

For the reaction papers, you must find a news story either from a magazine, newspaper, television, or from the internet that relates to a social problem discussed in your text. First, you must provide a brief summary of the news story or article, then you should discuss your attitude or feelings towards the article or news story, then explain how this particular article or news story relates to the specific issue and social problem covered in your text. Please note: your news article must be current (no more than a month old) and relate to the specific readings for that week (e.g., week two discusses family and related issues; therefore, your article should be related to that issue). Remember, all magazine, newspaper, television, or internet sources must be correctly cited using the American Psychological Association (APA) method. Moreover, all writing assignments must confirmin terms of structure and contentto the APA method. This means that you must cite all of your sources using the APA method including your reference page. Please note: do not use any contractions; one point will be deducted for every contraction used. No use of you, or your, or rhetorical questions. Additionally, you must provide the link for each article. All writing assignment will be graded for thoughtfulness, mechanics: grammar, spelling, sentence structure, accurate application of theories and concepts, highlighting the larger social problem in relations to the new article, level of analysis and organization and structure. Your writings must demonstrate creativity and critical thinking. Please note: Do not retell the news story; a brief summary of the news story is all I am interested in. I am far more interested in you connecting the news story you selected to the larger social problem discussed in your text that your news story highlighted. In other words, connect your news story to the text.