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Index
Keeping an Issues Log
- Directions and Marking Criteria
for Issues Log Projects
- What to Look for in the Issues Log Examples
- 12 Examples of Issues Log
Entries
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Your project directions in the module workbooks include the basic requirements
for Issues Log projects. This part of the How to Explore an Issue
manual provides fuller directions, marking criteria, and examples.
Exploring the issues in the Canadian Issues textbook is
a useful step that you take in almost every lesson in this social studies
course. It is a step toward exploring the issues better as a citizen throughout
your life. The Issues Log/Discussion projects in this course are one way
in which your social studies merge into socially responsible citizenship.
As a citizen, you probably keep up with the news, and this course assumes
that you are doing that for several hours a week as part of your daily
life. That time will normally be spent with the broadcast, print, and
Web media, but it could also include talking to informed people. While
you are taking this course, it is especially important that you be keeping
up with the news, and you also need to keep notes—entries like the
examples shown later in this part of this manual. You can do this in a
computer document or on paper. In either case, it is an Issues Log. You
will use it for Projects 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 (which are usually the
final Section Assignment in each module).
Those projects can be done in two main ways:
- Unless you receive other directions from your instructor, you will
submit a series of Issues Log entries for each of those projects.
- If you are taking the course in an online or classroom group, your
instructor may direct you to participate in Issues Discussion. It will
still be useful to make Issues Log entries, but you will be marked on
your discussion work.
When you look at the examples of Issues Log entries, you will see how
keeping entries like those could also help you to participate in discussion.
Even if you are not doing discussion for marks, perhaps you can discuss
some of your Issues Log topics with family and friends. It will help you
to develop your views on the issues, and it will be a good source of insights
for your future entries.
As you look over the Issues Log/Discussion directions and examples, you
will notice that you will be following the steps for exploring an issue.
You will be:
- Focussing on an issue.
- Finding suitable information.
- Filtering out information that is not sufficiently reliable or useful.
- Expressing conclusions and supporting them.
- Presenting your response in a clear, insightful way.
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