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- Title
Writing biographical sketch introduces class to records.
- Authors
Scanlon, T. Joseph
- Abstract
The article presents an analysis of a public records project to help students and journalists form a biographical sketch of any person through the usage of available public records. The project makes it easy to find out a fair amount about many individuals without that individual being aware of what's going on. Also, it raises some serious questions about just what constitutes an invasion of privacy. Students are asked to use sampling techniques to select the name of one person. They are then told to go to public records to find out all they can about that person. The results are to be written up in the form of a biographical sketch, complete with references.
- Subjects
PUBLIC records; JOURNALISM; SAMPLING (Process); RIGHT of privacy; ACCESS control of public records; JOURNALISTS -- Services for; SERVICES for students
- Publication
Journalism Educator, 1979, Vol 34, Issue 3, p14
- ISSN
0022-5517
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/107769587903400304