About: My articles are about the impact that oil spills have. This includes impacts on the environment, animals, people, and money.
Overview of scholarly article:
In my scholarly article, the topic discussed is the impact that oil spills have on the earth and the environment. Some of the main points in the article include impacts on aquatic environments. The article points out that no oil spill is harmless and there are acute impacts like reduced reproduction, altered development, decreased defense from disease and impaired feeding mechanisms. The article states that there are often long-term chronic exposures due to continuous oil spills that serious effects on the species and the ecosystem. There are also different kinds of impacts like the economic costs of oil spills. The clean up costs of an oil spill can be small or very very great, depending on the size, location, type of oil, and how much oil is spilled. Not only are species hurt or killed by oil spills btu natural resources are damaged due to oil spills. When natural resources are damaged or ruined there are many costs like restoring the resources or replacing ruined resources. Wildlife is especially highlighted in the article as being impacted by an oil spill.
I am more nervous about this paper than I was about the first paper we wrote for English 101. I am nervous because I do not know much about the subject of which I am writing about and it is hard for me to grasp the idea of something that I have not been educated about. The research to find the two articles was not very hard and I am very pleased with the articles I found. Researching how the articles address different audiences and how they cater to their different audiences is going to be much more of a struggle I know. I am confident in the peer reviews however because I know that my classmates will give me positive feedback to push my paper in the direction of which it needs to go. The peer reviews were very helpful in the first paper and I hope that the reviews give me the confidence I need to do a great job on this paper. I plan on dissecting each part of each article and asking myself "how does this apply to the intended audience?" then I can elaborate on each part of the article. I am worried that I will run out of things to say or become too redundant trying to reach the six page requirement. I was too redundant in my last paper and I do not want to do that again. Through writing this paper I am excited to learn more about the topic at hand and start to realize how each kind of audience should be addressed.
Scholarly Article: (2010). Impact of Oil Spills. Congressional Digest, 89 (6), 167-192.
http://web.ebscohost.com.www.lib.ncsu.edu:2048/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=14&hid=109&sid=ab7ee169-0493-4762-a914-081e145e4f3b%40sessionmgr111
Popular Article: Gillis, J. & Kaufman L. (2010). After Oil Spills, Hidden Damages Can Last for Years. The New York Times, A1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/science/earth/18enviro.html?_r=1
Taylor, I totally understand feeling nervous about writing on a subject you are not familiar with. I am doing the same thing with my articles. Just remember, if you are unsure about what something means, look it up before writing about it! Good luck on your paper!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I felt the same, I started using the dictionary a lot to decipherer what the academic articles were trying to tell me haha But that paper was probably the most difficult since you got to understand your science topic and to give your opinion as well sigh.
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