I know this is a lot, but please help me. Thanks in advance. BIO 101: Writing As
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I know this is a lot, but please help me. Thanks in advance.
BIO 101: Writing Assignment: Compare and Contrast Two Articles Directions: Follow the steps below to write a paper that compares two articles, one that is more popular and one that is more scholarly. The paper will be submitted to your BIO 101 lab instructor Paper due date: Check with your lab instructor, your syllabus, or the Biology Lab blog blogs.nvcs.edu/albio/al-biology-laboratory-schedules Step 1. Pick a Topic. Pick any biology topic such as evolution, biotechnology. genetics, You can get some ideas from the table of contents of your biology environmental concerns, etc. textbook Topic Selected Step 2. Find Two Articles. Find two articles on your selected topic, one that is more popular (magazine or newspaper) and one that is more scholarly, using the library article databases linked on the BIO 101 Lab Research Guide (libguides.nvcc.edu/bio 101-al). Create citations for the two articles you found: Popular Periodical Article (Newspaper or Magazine) Citation: Scholarly Journal Article Citation: After you have found your articles and completed your citations, you can have them reviewed by a librarian at the research desk in the library to check that you have one of each type of article and to check your citations.Explanation / Answer
Topic Selected: Bio-degradable Plastics - Good or Not Good?
Popular Article Citation: https://www.quora.com/Are-biodegradable-bottles-more-expensive-than-plastic-Why-havent-they-caught-on-yet
Scholarly Journal Article Citation: Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2009, 10(9), 3722-3742; doi:10.3390/ijms10093722
Step 3:
Author Credentials:
Popular Article Author: Ravi Kanth Reddy SathiEnvironmentalist, Researcher, Trainer. Works at MEECONS. Holds degrees such as M. Sc. AgBT (The Environment & Sustainability, Andhra University College of Sciences. Graduated 2007) Andhra Pradesh, India
Scholarly Journal Article Author: Yutaka Tokiwa, Okinawa Industrial Technology Center/12-2 Suzaki, Uruma, Okinawa 904-2234, Japan
Audience: Intended audience for the popular article is the common public, who is environment conscious. Language used is scientific and yet understandable by the common man.
Intended audience for the scholarly audience is people with a scientific bend of mind, who are intending to do research about plastic degradation, etc. Language used here is more technical and scientific.
Publisher: Popular article has been published by the website www.quora.com (a platform for anyone to voice out one's opinions)
Scholarly article has been published by MDPI AG, Switzerland.
Step 3. B.
Notes on Popular Article:
Characteristic 1 - The author is an Environmentalist, Researcher and a trainer himself and works at MEECONS, India.
??Characteristic 2 - Intended audience is the common public, who is environment conscious. I can say this because the ideas are exchanged on an open platform called quora.com, where anyone is free to express his/her view on a certain subject being discussed.
Main Point 1 - The author does introduce us to the existence of biodegradable plastic, but emphasizes upon the fact that only if specific conditions are provided can the decomposition happen. In most of the dump yards and landfills, we fail to find the prescribed conditions for its decomposition.
Main Point 2 - He gives a better option of minimizing the usage of plastic, be it biodegradable or non-biodegradable.
Notes on Scholarly article:
Characteristic 1 - The author is a scientist at Okinawa Industrial Technology Center, Japan
Characteristic 2 - The intended audience is the scientific community, who are intending to do research about plastic degradability. This can be told so because the article has been published in an Intl. Journal of Molecular Science, which will be accessed generally by scientists and students.
Main point 1 - The author/s of this journal discuss about the factors, microbes and the enzymes required for the biodegradation of plastics. The evaluation of their degradation is based on both their chemical and physical properties.
Main point 2 - The author stresses upon the need for further research on this subject.
Step 4:
Biodegradable plastics - Boon or a Bane
The planet has witnessed the usage of plastic since the recent decades in various fields, such as packaging, research and development, food industry, pharmaceutical industry, etc. But at the same time, its disposal was causing a major concern for many, especially to the environmentalists. They were choking the water bodies and heating up the land. The invention of biodegradable plastics has paved way for relief from the said issues. Microbes such as Penicillium sp. strain 14-3 exhibited an enzymatic degradation of PEA (Poly ethylene adipate) with the use of a lipase. Similarly PCL (Poly e-caprolactone)is a biodegradable polyester can be degraded by lipases and esterases produced by Aspergillus flavus and Penicillium funiculosum. Nevertheless, the dump yards and land fills do not always possess the specific conditions such as temperature, humidity, etc. Hence their disposal has again posed the same issue like the non-biodegradable one. This work definitely needs further research.
Similarities - Both the articles are talking about the advantages of biodegradable plastics.
Differences - Popular article talks about the specific condtions not being available in the places of their dispossal, whereas the scholarly article mentions very hopefully about the dependancy of microbes and thier enzymes for biodegradation of plastics.