Pros and Cons
To complete this assignment successfully, you should:
- Study the assignment carefully
- Write your paragraph in your word processor program
- Save on a floppy disk
- Copy and paste assignment in the VCC
We will be using the World Wide Web as a resource for this course. This assignment
will help you become acquainted some of what the Web has to offer.
- Explore the list of web sites below. Click on the underlined title to open up each site individually.
- For each site that you open, place the web site in one of two categories:
- Pro – Favorable to the alcohol industry
- Con – Not favorable to the alcohol industry
- Choose two web sites in each category and answer the following questions:
List two reasons why you chose to put this website in the category that you did.
Who is the sponsor of the web site?
Why do each of the web sites have the view that they have?
Who are their audiences they are trying to target?
How do they try to influence their target audience?
Write one paragraph, addressing these questions and discuss your conclusions concerning these web sites. Under the item, Pros and Cons, post your paragraph in the Virtual Conference Center.
Visit these Web sites:
Once you have completed this assignment you should:
Go on to Weekly Check-In
or
Go back to Topic 2: History + Overview
