Practical 3: Purposes of Internet Resources

Resource 1: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2005/wp0560.pdf
Purpose of resource : Information
Reasons:

It is an analysis made by International Monetary Fund. The analysis is on the different effects of terrorism on the world economy. In other words, it displays the negative and positive impacts of terrorism on the economy.

Resource 2: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/11/60/1935314.pdf
Purpose of resource : News/ Information
Reasons :

For this website, I think it is a mixture of news and information. The reason why I said so is because this website has a few news on the latest terrorism activities and in the latter part, it moves on to the information of economic consequences of terrorism.

Resource 3: http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&webtag=ab-terrorism&tid=1000
Purpose of resource : Personal
Reasons :

At first look, this website may seem like an advocacy but after further reading, I realize that this website is more to personal type. Firstly, this website might be a forum page and contains a lot of people’s comments and opinions on terrorism. However, this is not advocacy and the writers or authors have no intention of influencing anyone. They are just voicing out their comments.

Resource 4: http://media.www.thepenn.org/media/storage/
Purpose of resource : News
Reasons :

This page is news that was published from a media website. It examines the impact that terrorism has caused till today. This news made me realize how big terrorism has been in our life today.