{"id":837,"date":"2009-11-13T08:09:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T13:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=837"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:47","slug":"website-of-the-week-procon-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/13\/website-of-the-week-procon-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Web site of the Week: ProCon.Org"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3549\/3486761520_49dda10b53_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"240\" \/>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mr_beaver\/3486761520\/\">Flickr<\/a><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.procon.org\/\">http:\/\/www.procon.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The library subscribes to a database called<a href=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/engine\/55\"> Opposing Viewpoints<\/a> that is really helpful for finding information on controversial issues.\u00c2\u00a0 However, sometimes it can be hard to think of a topic or lay out your argument for a persuasive paper.\u00c2\u00a0 Procon.org can help you.\u00c2\u00a0 You can either select a topic from the homepage or type in a subject to search.\u00c2\u00a0 From there you can choose to look at the top ten arguments for the topic or delve deeper into the issue.\u00c2\u00a0 It even has a page that shows you how to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.procon.org\/viewbackgroundresource.asp?resourceID=1577\"> cite your work<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found via Flickr http:\/\/www.procon.org\/ The library subscribes to a database called Opposing Viewpoints that is really helpful for finding information on controversial issues.\u00c2\u00a0 However, sometimes it can be hard to think of a topic or lay out your argument for a persuasive paper.\u00c2\u00a0 Procon.org can help you.\u00c2\u00a0 You can either select a topic from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/13\/website-of-the-week-procon-org\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Web site of the Week: ProCon.Org<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,80,60],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","tag-issues","tag-research","tag-web-site-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10252,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/10252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}