Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Three sources analysis

Academic Source vs Non-academic
              

The academic source that I choose like most has an abstract which is a major difference from a non-academic paper.  Both academic and non-academic sources that I found have graphs but there are major differences how the graphs are presented and explained.  In the academic paper it showed complex formulas that the average reader wouldn’t understand.  This shows not only the amount of time and effort that was put into the writing, but it also shows that the audience for an academic paper is a more educated group.   The academic paper also contains an introduction to the paper as well as a conclusion which goes to show that they expect the reader to read the whole paper front to back.  That is very different from the non-academic because the graphs are colorful and big representing that most readers will only look at the content in the graphs to decide if they want to read the paper.  Another difference in the types of papers are bold words are shown to draw your attention to the import words or key words in the information in the non-academic paper.  Yet, in the academic paper it has hardly any bold words because it expects the reader to be engaged and do more than just skim the article.  The more I read both types of articles I plan to go more into depth into the rhetorical situations.

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