Subject of Change

 Argumentative Essay 

    Over this weekend, I have thought a lot about what I want to write about and how I can find sources on both sides of the argument. As for this essay, the writer should remain neutral in the whole of the paper and share his/her opinion at the end. Kind of like a judge over seeing a court hearing. 

    From this, I have a subject that I would like to write about that would seem like an easy answer but is extremely convoluted for such a simple question. The proposition of lips on dinosaurs. For a long time, and have continued to publish, theropods with teeth uncovered and flashing all over pages of books and articles. Although, this hasn't been because it just looked cool, there was evidence to back it up. Evidence that I will not get into here but there is. In recent times however, there has been a push toward a new view of these creatures with lips. Like many things, it is up for interpretation based on old as well as new findings. I am excited to write about this as I have been looking into it for around two days now and it is incredibly in depth. 

Reading an Article

 Steps and Procedure 

    Originally, as I have said, I was not that big into science until high school so I never actually sat down and read a scientific article until then. I will say that reading an article and taking a quiz on it is not easy, however, like with everything, practice makes perfect. 

    What I like to start with is the results. This is because the results is the "heart" of the paper and should be able to stand alone while getting the objective, hypothesis and conclusion across. Also in the results section, there should be no "raw data". This means that there should be no baseline numbers in a table even if the table looks very nice. This is because for a majority of the time, you will be comparing two different things, something that you know about and know what the result will be and the other is what you are experimenting on. So, in a paper, the results for that comparison would look something like a bar graph with properly labeled x and y-axis. 

    Next, I look at the abstract and conclusion/discussion. This more or less gives me the same answer, but one is a more condensed version of the other with all of the other parts in there too. With reading the conclusion, you can gauge a sense of how well the author can interpret the data presented in from of them. this section will also reiterate what the introduction stated; which was why the experiment was performed in the first place. 
 

Analyzing the analysis

Writing Discussion

    Ever since I can remember, I have always struggled with the why portion of writing. For example, "why did that scene play out like that" or "why did the director use that shot"? I would either skip over the question entirely or write out a paragraph that was tangentially connected to the main question. So, while writing this analysis for the documentary project, I wanted to convey not only the specific reason of why the scene is playing out like that but also the emotion of the scene. 

    When I analyze a scene, I first like to start with what the scene is about. From there, I then pull out the shots and angles that heighten the emotion, logic or ethics that the director is trying to portray. Also known as pathos, ethos and logos. Normally, with what emotions the director is showing, you can gage what their stance is on the specifics in the scene. For example, if frustration is a key emotion in the scene, the director might give us a fraught battle with authority or something that was preventable that ended up happening. Of course the prefect scene blends all three and I would be here all day talking about all three (pathos, ethos and logos).