Hey again everyone! Welcome to week 2 of blog posting! I think I'v finally gotten the hang of posting these things! yayyyy! Anyways, todays blog is going to focus on the differences in writings between a news article and a scholarly article written by a professional in my field. First I will give short summaries of the articles and then I will compare the style and delivery of them.
News article:
http://everydaylife.globalpost.com/marine-zoologist-5673.html
So this article that I found on this online news source is actually really awesome! Well according to me anyways :). I really like this article because it is written about the exact field that I really want to explore! This article is about the subfield in zoology called Marine zoology. Since I wasn't sure anything like this existed, I am currently very excited! Marine Zoologists study the lifestyle, behavior, and other things of that nature of animals in bodies of water. The article also talks about the types of animals you can work with, the education needed, and even what the current job market is like. I have always been interested in marine wildlife so the information supplied in this article is something that is really helpful for me.
Scholarly Article:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2007.00356.x/full
This is the scholarly article that I read. Its main purpose was to talk about how elephants are starting to destroy the natural plant life, reducing its richness and abundance because of their grazing and travel. This article was not quite as interesting to me as the previous one because it is not exactly the type of work that I am interested in. However, it works very well to compare to the news article.
In comparing these two articles it is very obvious which one is the easier and more enjoyable read. The news article was very simply written with few large words. It gave easy descriptions about its topic of marine zoology and gave very useful information for someone looking into this field. It was also delivered in a very easy to read way with large print size and easy to follow paragraphs. The Scholarly article, on the other hand, was none of those things. While it may hold the interest of those very invested into that issue, it was rather boring and dry to read. It used large words and difficult sentence structure, making it hard to always understand and follow. It was also delivered in a bit more of an inconvenient way. The writing was small and the paragraphs did not have a lot of definition from one another. Over all, I found the news article much more enjoyable to read and much more informative to me personally.
Works Cited:
Morgan, Scott. "What is a Marine Zoologist." Globalpost 2013, Demand Media ed.ProQuest.Web.11 Sept. 2013
Landman M., G.I.H. Kerley, D.S. Schoeman. "Relevance of elephant herbivory as a threat to Important Plants in the Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa." Journal of Zoology 474.1 (24 AUG 2007): 51-58.Web.10 Sept. 2013.
Great post! I'm glad I looked at your blog! I found the information from the elephant article to be interesting. The professional writing piece I chose was very different because he writes a blog and he's an advertiser so I thought it was an appropriate thing to choose to compare to an article from online. Now I have an idea of what another professional article that is more sophisticated would look like. I also agree with everything you say. The educational article was much harder to read through and I wouldn’t like to read that for fun either. Great post! I'm glad I looked at your blog! I found the information from the elephant article to be interesting. The professional writing piece I chose was very different because he writes a blog and he's an advertiser so I thought it was an appropriate thing to choose to compare to an article from online. Now I have an idea of what another professional article that is more sophisticated would look like. I also agree with everything you say. The educational article was much harder to read through and I wouldn’t like to read that for fun either.
ReplyDeleteYa the Elephant professional article was difficult to get through. But a professional blog sounds really cool and much more interesting to read.
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