When writing scientifically, the content of the written document should be comprehensible to the audience. For this reason, scientists and researchers tailor their work to appeal the targeted audience and achieve their goal. The beginning of any scientific writing is the formation of a scientific idea. This idea is conveyed through a grant proposal and if approved, then the experiment can be conducted. After the research is over, the experiment is relayed into a peer-review article and review articles. The information from the articles is used to communicate a scientific idea to the public by means of popular sources. In scientific writing, a grant proposal starts the scientific idea, peer-review and review articles go into specific details
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The goal of the NICHD is to support researchers who are investigating “human development throughout the entire life process, focusing on understanding developmental disabilities, including intellectual and developmental disabilities, and illuminating important events that occur during pregnancy.” This goal of understanding developmental disabilities was addressed in Leonard J. Abbeduto 's grant abstract. Abbeduto discussed that fragile X syndrome (FXS) causes an “intellectual disability” that affects 1 in 2500 people. The NICHD is concentrated on understanding “intellectual and developmental disabilities.” Thus, this abstract was written to directly appeal to this purpose of the NICHD. The abstract goes on to examine how FXS can affect language development and lead to consequences in adulthood due to language impairment. The project looks at participants between the age of 15-22. NICHD is interested in exploring human development throughout the entire life process, so including participants from the ages of 15-22 fulfills this objective. Language is a major component of this research project and research is a developmental skill. Abbeduto chose to explore language because it would attract the NICHD’s attention instead of paying attention to other factors affected by FXS, such as …show more content…
The New York Times is viewed by the public, so the readers do not have expertise in FXS or the retardation associated with it. The article does not go into specific detail about FXS but gives a general overview of what FXS is and how it affects people who have it. Harris may not have gone in depth about FXS to make the article easier to read for a bigger audience and avoid complexity. Harris’ article is mainly discussing a trial of a drug that helps reduce the behaviors of people with FXS. When it comes to disorders and diseases, the public’s main concern is whether there is a treatment to help which is why the article is more about treatment than the developmental disabilities. Harris used adaptation through example and adaptation through visuals. He used adaptation through example by talking about Andy Tranfaglia and how his parents are funding research for treatment of people with FXS. His condition is used to relate to the development of the treatment and the trials done. Harris included pictures of Andy and his mother to show the public someone who has FXS. The pictures provide an emotional aspect to the article. This is the only source to incorporate emotion within
The goal of the NICHD is to support researchers who are investigating “human development throughout the entire life process, focusing on understanding developmental disabilities, including intellectual and developmental disabilities, and illuminating important events that occur during pregnancy.” This goal of understanding developmental disabilities was addressed in Leonard J. Abbeduto 's grant abstract. Abbeduto discussed that fragile X syndrome (FXS) causes an “intellectual disability” that affects 1 in 2500 people. The NICHD is concentrated on understanding “intellectual and developmental disabilities.” Thus, this abstract was written to directly appeal to this purpose of the NICHD. The abstract goes on to examine how FXS can affect language development and lead to consequences in adulthood due to language impairment. The project looks at participants between the age of 15-22. NICHD is interested in exploring human development throughout the entire life process, so including participants from the ages of 15-22 fulfills this objective. Language is a major component of this research project and research is a developmental skill. Abbeduto chose to explore language because it would attract the NICHD’s attention instead of paying attention to other factors affected by FXS, such as …show more content…
The New York Times is viewed by the public, so the readers do not have expertise in FXS or the retardation associated with it. The article does not go into specific detail about FXS but gives a general overview of what FXS is and how it affects people who have it. Harris may not have gone in depth about FXS to make the article easier to read for a bigger audience and avoid complexity. Harris’ article is mainly discussing a trial of a drug that helps reduce the behaviors of people with FXS. When it comes to disorders and diseases, the public’s main concern is whether there is a treatment to help which is why the article is more about treatment than the developmental disabilities. Harris used adaptation through example and adaptation through visuals. He used adaptation through example by talking about Andy Tranfaglia and how his parents are funding research for treatment of people with FXS. His condition is used to relate to the development of the treatment and the trials done. Harris included pictures of Andy and his mother to show the public someone who has FXS. The pictures provide an emotional aspect to the article. This is the only source to incorporate emotion within