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I will be using this as an example of a Non-Academic Hydro-Environment
piece by showing that a synthesis of a compilation of inspections and the
creation of improvements aren’t the only things that a hydro-environment scientist/engineer
can write. This article is telling the public that hydro-engineers tried all
available to repair a piece of malfunctioning equipment and in the end they
were successful. The language that was used in this article understandable
for the average joe. The language of Non-Academic sources varies with what is
being reported. Issues that contain numerous inspections/studies will have a
lot of language that the average person does not understand; because they are
wanting to describe certain aspects of the device that were looked at. The article
was organized the same way as all the other articles; but with a lot less talk
about inspections and methods. One thing that this article did that was
amazing, was when it was talking about the solution the engineers chose, it
said “The best option available”. The article did not refute that there were
other options that could have accomplished the same task, but it wasn’t the
best one that was created.
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This piece of Non-Academic writing has language that
the average joe could not understand. However, when they used that language,
it was because there was no other choice. Most of the time, it was when they
were talking about something in depth or the results of a study that was done
on the powerplant that they were wanting to bring back online. For example,
in one of the paragraphs when they were talking about the inspection that was
done by James Leffel & Co.
circa 2010, used the terminology Babbitt-bearings/segments. Now obviously, a
Babbitt is a style of bearings/segment; and they had no choice but to use it.
However, what they could’ve done is use the word, and explained it in someway
shape or form. The structure of this Non-Academic source was neigh identical
to the three Academic sources. They intended to set out to try and get this
power plant back on after it got taken offline because it was hit by a
hurricane. They then brought up various parts that were inspected by different
people and the writer compiled it together and then wrote about it.
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I will be using this as an example of an Academic Hydro-Environment piece by explaining all, the different sources that the article pulls from that explains the impact that climate change has on the hydrological cycle. The article mentions that there have been several people that have studied this growing field for the past several years. They then go on stating several people who’ve done experiments about the hydrological cycle and the impact climate change has on it; and then they go and summarize their results. The language that the people who wrote the article, for the most part, used words that almost everyone understands. The headings that are given to each section are clearly the main talking point. The writer remains completely passive throughout the whole article and does a great job with not including their bias. This is not a very effective article for the average reader, since of its length; however, it does a fantastic job in explaining the impact that climate change has on the hydrological cycle. Explain the structure, language and references here.
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