I’m working on a writing question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn. For this DB activity, you will be doing

I'm working on a writing question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

For this DB activity, you will be doing two things. First, you will be applying some of what you have learned in chapters 18 and 19. Choose one health product. De-construct one health product AND the advertising associated with it. Secondly, you will talk about how you would teach someone else about the product. No product is perfect – focus on accuracy! One of the learning goals for this activity is for you to be able to present a highly critical, objective, and balanced synopsis of a product, and tell about it. For the two parts of your initial post you will need to complete the following:

• Pick a product/service from one of the following categories: OTC medication, beauty/make-up product, or an image enhancement service
• De-construct the labeling, product information and advertising for this product/service. Include information about what is "true" about the product, what types of marketing/manipulation of image, language etc is used to entice people to buy and use the product. Finally, briefly talk about what the ingredients in the product/service actually do verses what claims are made — investigate the veracity and accuracy of the claims. (You book has some useful information about what common product ingredients actually do or actually are and how they are marketed)
• Make specific references to information and examples from your text reading that you used to assist you in your analysis and deconstruction of the product. The point here is for you to actively use what you have learned so far in class to complete the critical deconstruction of the product. (For example, citing what you learned about an ingredient or how some companies present information to prompt a certain type of response or image of a product. For example, the author does a nice job of talking about what a moisturizer is versus what an emollient is — beauty product advertisers often use these words in ways to prompt a consumer response or image rather than to provide information to a consumer about the ingredient!)
• You may wish to use the information on critical thinking as a guide for questions to ask,
• For the second part of your initial post you will are to describe/discuss the following: how might you use this exercise to teach others how to be more critical consumers of health products? The exercise above is actually a pretty basic exercise in critically analyzing one product. Take the activity you just did — and add one more element to it that you think would make it a more powerful or relevant exercise to teach people how to critically question and analyze a health product. (There are many, many ways to do this. There is not truly a "right" answer to this — what I am looking for is How you are thinking — in what depth and to what level of detail. What would you do and why — this is what is important! Have some fun with this second part — think creatively!)

For your Conversation with Classmates: You will be responding to a minimum of two classmates. You will also be responding to classmates who post to you.

• Which of your classmates do you think did a really good job of analyzing and de-constructing a product? In your posts to your classmates, specifically describe what it is about each of their posts which made it a significant post and why.
• Post a question to one of your classmate's about their post. Maybe they missed something about a product, maybe they created something for part 2 of their post that you'd like to know more about…ask a question (Remember, this means you will need to also answer questions posed to you!)
• Tell a classmate about something you learned from reading their post. For example, you could tell them about how you will look at a particular product in a new way — or — about how you learned a new way to teach others about being a more critical consumer of health products.