4. TEAM EXERCISE Your college or university wishes to update its website to include a section called “For Prospective International Students.” Along with members of your team, first determine whether your school’s website already has information of particular interest to prospective international students. If it does, write a memo to your instructor describing and evaluating the information. Is it accurate? Comprehensive? Clear? Useful?

What kind of information should be added to the site to make it more effective?

If the school’s site does not have this information, perform the following two tasks:

Plan. What kind of information should this new section include? Does some of this information already exist elsewhere on the web, or does it all have to be created from scratch? For example, can you create a link to an external site with information on how to obtain a student visa? Write an outline of the main topics that should be covered.

Draft. Write the following sections: “Where To Live on or near Campus,” “Social Activities on or near Campus,” and “If English Is Not Your Native Language.” What graphics could you include? Are they already available? What other sites should you link to from these three sections?

In a memo, present your suggestions to your instructor. For more about memos, see Ch. 9, “Writing Memos.”