Prompt #4

After reading a blog about materials engineering and a scholarly article about materials engineering, you can really pick out the differences between the two. The scholarly article starts by jumping right into what they are talking about, and what they have researched, as the blog starts off by saying "Researchers of the University of Alicante". This implies that they read some sort of scholarly article first and blogged about the information from the article written by the "researchers". I have noticed that the blog has a clear title before the rest of the blog, while the scholarly article only uses keywords to say what the article is about. The article comes off very long with all the information included, while the blog is fairly short with just a summary of the information from another article. Not only is the article longer, but the text is a lot smaller than the blog text as well. The article uses a lot of graphs and tables, all in black and white, while the blog has colored pictures showing what the blog is talking about. The scholarly articles hold all of the research, as the blog only holds a summary or a small part of the research in it. People would probably trust the scholarly article more because it has been written by a professional, and has all the information in it, although the blog is a lot easier to read because the length is much shorter, and still has a good amount of information that can be used. Scholarly articles are really aimed towards other scholars or professionals along with students doing research, as blogs have an audience of usually only the general public. Blogs are probably created so the general public don't have to read the whole article about what they want to know, and they can get an easy summary from the blog and still learn a lot from it. We can conclude that a scholarly article will give an incredible amount of information, but the articles end up very long and they are usually aimed at other scholars professionals and students, and also that blogs give a good amount of information on what we want to learn, and are really aimed at the general public and helping people read about what they want to learn.

-Alex Brown

Sources:
Mckeown, Neil B., Prof., Bader Gahnem, Dr., Kadhum J. Msayib, Dr., Peter M. Budd, Dr., Carrin E. Tattershall, Dr., Khalid Mahmood, Dr., Siren Tan, David Book, Dr., Henrietta W. Langmi, Dr., and Allen Walton, Dr. "Hydrogen Storage;microporous Materials;nanostructures;polymers."Towards Polymer-Based Hydrogen Storage Materials: Engineering Ultramicroporous Cavities within Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity. Angewandte, 10 Feb. 2006. Web. 06 Oct. 2015. <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.200504241/full>.

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