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Finding a Controversy
- Getting Started
- Choosing a Controversy
- Links to get Started
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The Assignments
- Analyze a Position
- Describe a Controversy
- Advocate a Position
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Exploration
- Reflect on a Controversy
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Additional Resources
- Remaining Neutral in Your Writing
- Selected Websites
Links to Get Started
Here you will find a collection of links organized by subject and issues to help you choose a controversy.
A note about online periodicals: Some of the online versions of newspapers and magazines that you may find useful in your research, such as the New York Times, Time Magazine, and Newsweek, require that you pay with a credit card in order to access articles in their archives. However, in many cases you do not need to pay to read these articles. As a student at the University of Iowa, you have free access to most of these articles through the Lexis-Nexis database.
Politics
Environment
Society and Culture
Science, Health, and Technology
Advertising
Adbusters
Advertising Resources, UI Department of Communication Studies
Magazines and Journals
Left
Mother Jones
The Nation
The Progressive
Right
The National Review
The American Spectator
The Weekly Standard
Center
Time Magazine
Newsweek
U.S. News