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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Prompt #4 Considering Delivery and Style

By Boyuan Sun

Internet offers us a platform where we can fine different resources from different providers. To make a good use of them we need to know which to trust and what they are providing us. In order to distinguish them deliveries and styles are always involved.

As for us, before we do the serious research we usually tend to type the key words in the search engine and see what do we get for that. Our attentions always caught by some newspaper articles and blog posts. The audience of those articles is the general public.

For instance, the blog post “Six common mistakes that engineering graduates make” by The Open Electrical gives us six possible mistakes may be made by primary engineers saying “In the worst case, that someone could be an expert witness in court assessing whether or not your work was negligent ”. Those kind of articles are provided with pictures(shown in figure 1) and also in first or second person tone which can help reader to grab the idea easily.

Figure 1

However, before we trust them we need to think it twice because these article could wrote by anyone and always be exaggerated.

To support our ideas scholarly articles are required which wrote by professionals with a high level credibility. For example, “The educational and social science literature has documented the influence of parents on the formation of basic educational aspirations (Berger & Luckmann, 1966; Heppner & Scott, 2004; Whiston & Keller, 2004).” said by Willie Pearson Jr. & Jon D. Miller is authentic by the resources given.

Scholarly articles are aiming the audience of people who have some basic knowledge of the field and seek the data. Those articles are always provided with enough tables, figures and detailed references to let us to backtrace the resources.


Work citation:

“Six common mistakes that engineering graduates make.” The Open Electrical Blog. WordPress, February 22, 2011. Web. October 10, 2015.

Willie Pearson Jr. & Jon D. Miller (2012) Pathways to an Engineering Career, Peabody Journal of Education, 87:1, 46-61, DOI: 10.1080/0161956X.2012.642270

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