Workbook Assignment #2

For this assignment, I chose to research President Obama's 2014 speech on immigration and the articles that recapped the speech. One such article, put out by the Washington Post and entitled 'Obama announces immigration overhaul shielding 4 million from deportation', had bits and pieces of his speech quoted throughout. They all matched up word-for-word except for one quote I could not find anywhere in the original speech. The quote was "Part of staying competitive in a global economy is making sure that we have an immigration system that doesn't send away top talent, but attracts it." The article stated the source of this quote was "a transcript of the event", but could not be found in the official address. The second article I found on the speech is entitled "The Data Behind the Immigration Speech" and was published online by U.S. News & World Report. The author of the article took specific quotes from the president's speech, wrote them out, and then explained what each on meant and provided the actual data behind the quote. There were twelve direct quotes in total that were put into the article, and each one checked out with the original speech Obama gave.