The Perception Of HIV Among College Students: Critical Analysis

This essay is a critical evaluation of a web page called “The Perception of HIV Among College Students” by Jarrett Way (Way, December 16,2004). In the argumentative essay I intend to use this source mainly for the interview content and the conclusion. In the evaluation, I focus on three criteria: first, I will investigate the authority of the author, judging whether it is a professional report or not. Also, I will briefly discuss the objectivity and authenticity in terms of the content. Second, I will examine its publication to invest if the source is credible besides through the condition of the author. Third, I will evaluate the content and the intention of the writer and report in order to decide whether the information within to be used
He got a recognition for undergraduates. He had been an editor in chief in Odyssey for eight months during his college in 2005. Now, he is a management consultant in Oak Service Corporation. (LinkedIn, n.d.) The young guy has “highly motivated inspiring public relations professional desiring a challenge opportunity that can pull from various areas of experience”, saying in his readme. He has done two Expansions. One was at University of Colorado, Boulder Expansion from September to November in 2016 and he released a relative press. The other was at Oregon State University from January to March in 2016. Jarrett joined in The Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity since August 2013, an organization founded at the University of Virginia in 1868 and having over 225 chapters and colonies across the United States and Canada among undergraduates. (ibid) Jarrett wrote the report, The Perception of HIV Among College Students, at the age of 20, a senior at the university pursuing a degree in Journalism. (Jarrett, The Perception of HIV Among College Students, 2014) As we seen, Jarrett is not a professor or activist in HIV/AIDS. That he wrote the report is not out of his sympathy and care to HIV sufferers but more for his major. As a consequence, there may also be some inescapable bias in his report as
(HIV EQUAL ONLINE, n.d.) The condition of health education provided on campus changes and country is paying more attention on health education as time goes by. Besides, the report only searched among the students at the University of North Texas. The small scale is not typical and accurate enough to demonstrate truths or phenomenon among HIV/AIDS field. It even can not represent the whole American college students’ condition. My final topic is about the attitudes, behavior and awareness of Chinese college students. Though the subject of my topic is different, there is overlap between the condition of Chinese college students and what the report searched of college students at the University of North Texas. The content does have some referential value though the report doesn’t have much authority and is a little out of date. On the one hand, balancing my topic requirement and the intension and content of the report, I will not take this source in advantage of. On the other hand, though, it can be used in comparison between the condition of HIV/AIDS among Chinese college students and American college students and bring me some