Final Project: Media Comparison
Completion requirements
Assignment
Final Project: Media Comparison
This assignment requires you to respond to a peer on the forum for Misleading Advertisements.
For Assignment 1, you provided a link to an advertisement and a short summary of the concerns or issues you have with the advertisement. For your final project, you use the information you have learned in the course and your own research to reply to a peer's discussion post of your choice. You may agree with the original post and provide information and detail to support your opinion of how the advertisement is misleading OR you may disagree with the original post and choose to defend your reasoning that the advertisement is not misleading.
- Choose a peer's post in the Assignment 1 forum to which to respond.
- Consider the major topics in this course, but you are not limited to them:
- Pre-competition, post-competition, and during competition nutrition
- Recommended amounts of macro-nutrients for athletes
- Recommendations for supplementation
- Proper hydration
- Recommended sources of nutrients
- Types of foods and/or liquids athletes should be avoiding
- Differences in sport types and athlete needs
- Write a critical response, including the following information:
- Your opinion statement on the advertisement and/or product
- Information to support your opinion based on information in the course and your own research (This must be a minimum of three major arguments with researched support.)
- List of your sources of information
Post your critical response as a reply to the media piece in the original post in the Forum for Assignment #1.
After you have completed your discussion boards, submit a declaration sheet which requires you to check that you have met the requirements for the course and to copy and paste your forum.
Marking Guidelines
Click on the link below to download a copy of the rubric for this project. Ensure you refer to the rubric prior to completing your project.