Quality in the News Guidelines
Below are some guidelines to help you complete the Quality in the News assignment:
1. Assignment length: one page, typed.
2. Spelling errors and grammar errors always detract from the reader's final opinion of the
work. Be mindful of these errors and proof read your work.
3. Complete the top of the template with your name and the date the assignment is due (not
the date you write it).
4. Citations and references shall be in APA citation formatting.
5. Select a current news article from a general periodical (examples: New York Times, Wall
Street Journal, Times Union, Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, etc.).
Professional publications and trade journals such as Harvard Business Review, Quality
Progress, Quality Digest, Quality Management Journal, etc. should not be used. (If you have a
question about a source, email me with your question).
6. Summarize the problem from the article and identify what you think the quality issue may
be (It must start with - \"The quality problem is...\").
7. Only identify one problem per assignment.
8. Think about the quality tools you can use to solve the problem and identify which three
tools you would use and why you picked those particular tools.
9. You may not use the same tools from assignment to assignment; you must use three
different/new tools for each assignment.
10. Identify at least the first three problem identification steps you would take to determine
the root cause (list at least the first three actions). Do not restate any of your tools as
problem solving steps. Your steps should not talk about solutions. (See slide 31 from
lecture 4.)
11. You may not use the same steps from assignment to assignment; you must use three
different/new steps for each assignment.
Remember the point of this exercise is to read, think and question the issues; how these issues
relate to quality and how you might start to solve this problem. This is not a writing exercise it is a
thinking exercise. I am interested in a succinct, one page summary.
Submit your paper in Moodle (Quality in the News section), attach a link to your article.
Naming your file: LAST NAME-QITN-DATE DUE.doc, example: Cirelli-QITN-6-16-17.doc