D#7 HW#7 Annotate a Resource

1)Who is the author of the text and what are his/her/their credentials?
Steve Sternberg (i think he's a reporter?)

2)what is the purpose of the text and who is its intended audience?
The purpose of this text is to info people of the controversy in sex education in school, about different views and opinions. Its intended audience is anyone reading USATODAY, (mainly the older adult population, parents, and teachers)

3)What is the major claim made in the resource?
Abstinence only education is the way to go.

4)What are the reasons given for supporting that claim?
One survey, she writes, indicates that in 1988 just 2% of teachers taught abstinence as the only means of pregnancy and disease prevention, compared with 23% a decade later.

Brown, of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, says abstinence-only programs "don't talk about contraceptives at all. Or, if they do, they talk about the downside, their failure rates, side effects and complications."

Sexually transmitted diseases are tightly linked to promiscuity and casual sex," he says. "Abstinence is the principal program that will address the core issue. Safer sex isn't going to do it."

Unruh isn't selling souvenirs, she's using the snakes and other props to teach young people about the risks of sex before marriage. What she won't show kids, however, is how to protect themselves if they choose to ignore the lessons she and Herbie Herpes have to teach.

5)What evidence is provided to support those reasons?
there isn't any really this reporter is just giving different opinions all facts in the article would prove otherwise.

6)how useful will this resource be in your own research? How does it fit with the other resources that you have found?
VERY useful, so glad i found it love hearing/reading different views from my own and analyzing in such a way to make myself feel/know that I'm right ahahaha!