In order to improve upon social problems in the future, it is important for everyone to have evidence about
current issues. So the purpose of this assignment is for you to explain social science information from a
scholarly reading in an appealing way. In your script, identify the setting and who’s speaking. (For example,
might you like to interview the authors of these articles? Stakeholders belonging to groups discussed in the
articles? Where do you think your news segment should take place? A news station? A school? Another
location in the community? Why?)
After writing your script, reflect in a few sentences on the process of expressing academic content for a
general audience. What did you do to make your news report interesting to the audience? What are some
of the benefits and challenges of making social science research public?