Scenario:

The giant superstore Costco makes several requirements of its customers. Children must be kept with their parents at all times and they can’t wander around to the various food stations of the warehouse on their own. Costco also asks that its customers not show up looking as if they just came from the beach. Hey, it’s not too much to ask that they wear shoes and shirts while shopping.Lastly, Costco wants permission to look in the briefcases, backpacks, and packages of those entering its warehouse. It’s too easy for people to steal and slip items into big bags. Unlike other supermarkets, Costco is a private membership store and thus can make reasonable demands of its customers. But it needs help with fitting all these restrictions on a sign to place at the entrance of the warehouse.

Instructions:

Assume you are a consultant hired by Costco to draft a text-based sign for the entrance. Prepare two versions of an entrance sign – one written from a negative point of view (don’t do this, don’t do that) with active voice, and one from a positive point of view with passive voice - that effectively list all of the requirements. Be sure the items are parallel, have correctly place modifiers, and do not contain any of the sentence faults discussed in the lesson. Remember this is a sign placed at the entrance to the warehouse, so it must be brief since most customers will not stop for a long time to read it.

Create both of your signs using in a Word document with each sign on a page of its own.