Prompted Post, Week # 2

I found two different pieces of writing that both have a central focus on the environmental problem of global warming, one was a news article, and the other a scholarly article.

The news article was written in short concise paragraphs. It told you about the problems we will face due to climate change. The author of the article did not take a side on the problem, he simply addressed the issue at hand. The article tells you about the viewpoints that the U.N. has on climate change and our future. It is written in very common language, so that most people could read and understand it. There is not a very dense vocabulary to the article. I felt it was more freely written than the scholarly article. The audience would be to anyone interested in environmental problems. It's purpose was to inform us that even the U.N. believes that climate change is a problem and that we need to do something about it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/science/earth/un-says-lag-in-confronting-climate-woes-will-be-costly.html?ref=earth

The scholarly article was different than the news article. It was arranged differently in the fact that is contained an abstract before the article. This one was also written in a more formal manner. The article was more fact driven than the first one. The author had taken a side in this article as well. He told you what he believed by telling you that all the facts show that global warming is real, as well as what it will do to our planet. Such as having an increase in rain. I felt this piece was very to the point and straight forward. It was directed towards anyone seriously concerned about the environment, and wanting to know what it will do to our planet. It's purpose was to let you know that there are facts supporting global warming, and increased rainfall due to it. There were lots of paragraphs of dense information supporting the statement.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/317/5835/233.full

works cited:

Gills, Justin. "U.N. Says Lag in Confronting Climate Woes Will Be Costly.". The New York Times, 16 Jan. 2014. Web. 22 Jan, 2014.

 Wentz, Frank J., Lucrezia Ricciaduli,Kyle Hillburn, and Carl Mears." How much more Rain will Global Warming bring?". ScienceMag. 31 May, 2007. Web. 22 Jan, 2014.