Your first stop should always be the UW-Stout Swanson Library Archives and Area Research Center Stout-Focused Stoutonia Tutorial for using the Stoutonia Tower Yearbook Athletics Collections Campus News Student Publications Bulletins Campus Photographs Menomonie & Surrounding Area Dunn County News Leader Telegram Eau Claire Newspaper Volume One
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Maps & Atlases of Wisconsin Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) Milwaukee County Historical Society Photograph Collection Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Turning Points in Wisconsin History University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory (WHS) Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database (WHS) Wisconsin Digital Archives Wisconsin Farm History Oral History Project… Read More Wisconsin Research Resources
For this assignment, you need to identify what your essay will be about. You should consider how your topic relates to Upper Midwest issues. You may want to consider using your Advocacy Project as a way into this theme. This is your opportunity to explore your topic. Consider the following: Are you examining a specific… Read More Research Proposal
For this assignment, you’re going to create a phone script that you would share with other people concerned about your Advocacy Project’s issue. These individuals would use this script to call legislators or decision makers and ask them to vote, decide, or behave a certain way. These scripts should be short and easily left as… Read More Advocacy Phone Script
Congressional one-pagers are used by advocacy groups to help legislators make decisions and shape policy. One-pagers help busy decision makers understand an organization’s stance on an issue in one glance. So, one-pagers distill a lot of information into one, graphically interesting, easy to read document. All of the information should fit on one side of… Read More Advocacy One-Pager
AD-VOCATE (Latin) ad in order to + vocare to call Making changes in the world doesn’t have to be radical process with marches in the streets or armed conflict. In fact, a lot of change that makes a difference in our lives starts with writing and communication. For this assignment, you’ll select a topic/problem that… Read More Advocacy Project Overview
Op-eds provide news sources an opportunity for their readers to engage in shaping public opinion. Major papers like the New York Times solicit op-eds from leading thinkers and public figures. For example, former president and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Jimmy Carter, routinely writes op-eds for The Washington Post. Twin Cities news sources, such as the… Read More Op-Ed Assignment
