Over the next few pages I plan to look into a few of the research sources that I’ve come across in the past month or so doing research for our Individual Endeavor. However, I am not writing to draw conclusions and create a thesis statement. Rather, I plan to dive deep into what makes each piece of writing what it is, from its audience, genre, situation and medium.
The first source that I will be exploring in this essay comes from the Journal of Sustainable Tourism. The article, entitled “Integrating Indigenous values with capitalism through tourism: Alaskan experiences and outstanding issues” focuses on the relationship between the indigenous people of Barrow, Alaska and the tourism that sustains a sizeable part of their economy.
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For instance, a scientific journal article must be read much differently than an editorial piece. Understanding the genre of a piece can offer many insights into the reason it was written and therefore provide a much clearer picture of the research source as a whole. The article entitled “Integrating Indigenous values with capitalism through tourism: Alaskan experiences and outstanding issues” is published in the scientific journal, giving it the classification of an academic research article. This actually eliminates a good number of questions about author’s bias as it reports scientific findings and aims to draw conclusions from them. As a whole, the fact that Hillmer-Pegram’s article is published in this genre gives is a high level of credibility and can leave the reader with a sound mind that what they read is reliable and true. These generalizations hold true when reading the piece. Hillmer-Pegram does not attack tourism for hurting the native way of life, but rather analyzes the sometimes strenuous relationship fairly and from a scientific standpoint back by his own research. Conversely, the article “What 's killing the Yukon 's salmon? An ecological mystery in Alaska has scientists and fishermen baffled and alarmed” is published on an online news website and therefore warrants a deeper look. A perspective worth note about news sources as opposed to …show more content…
The two examples I’ve chosen to analyze in this essay have shown some clear differences, and warrant a different reading based on the four criteria I used, situation, audience, genre, and medium. Kevin Hillmer-Pegram’s academic journal article proves to be a far more in depth piece, meant for an educated audience with lots of scientific backing, high credibility and low bias. On the other hand Ben Goldfarb’s piece raised some questions regarding credibility and bias, but upon further examination warranted approval. Analysis of it also revealed a different level of depth and there a separate capacity for use in that it provides a far broader, but less in depth reporting for an audience largely comprised of the general public. All in all, through the proper analysis both these articles can be deemed credible and unbiased, but are of different levels of complexity and therefore must be used
The first source that I will be exploring in this essay comes from the Journal of Sustainable Tourism. The article, entitled “Integrating Indigenous values with capitalism through tourism: Alaskan experiences and outstanding issues” focuses on the relationship between the indigenous people of Barrow, Alaska and the tourism that sustains a sizeable part of their economy.
The …show more content…
For instance, a scientific journal article must be read much differently than an editorial piece. Understanding the genre of a piece can offer many insights into the reason it was written and therefore provide a much clearer picture of the research source as a whole. The article entitled “Integrating Indigenous values with capitalism through tourism: Alaskan experiences and outstanding issues” is published in the scientific journal, giving it the classification of an academic research article. This actually eliminates a good number of questions about author’s bias as it reports scientific findings and aims to draw conclusions from them. As a whole, the fact that Hillmer-Pegram’s article is published in this genre gives is a high level of credibility and can leave the reader with a sound mind that what they read is reliable and true. These generalizations hold true when reading the piece. Hillmer-Pegram does not attack tourism for hurting the native way of life, but rather analyzes the sometimes strenuous relationship fairly and from a scientific standpoint back by his own research. Conversely, the article “What 's killing the Yukon 's salmon? An ecological mystery in Alaska has scientists and fishermen baffled and alarmed” is published on an online news website and therefore warrants a deeper look. A perspective worth note about news sources as opposed to …show more content…
The two examples I’ve chosen to analyze in this essay have shown some clear differences, and warrant a different reading based on the four criteria I used, situation, audience, genre, and medium. Kevin Hillmer-Pegram’s academic journal article proves to be a far more in depth piece, meant for an educated audience with lots of scientific backing, high credibility and low bias. On the other hand Ben Goldfarb’s piece raised some questions regarding credibility and bias, but upon further examination warranted approval. Analysis of it also revealed a different level of depth and there a separate capacity for use in that it provides a far broader, but less in depth reporting for an audience largely comprised of the general public. All in all, through the proper analysis both these articles can be deemed credible and unbiased, but are of different levels of complexity and therefore must be used