User:Brady.mccubbins22/sandbox

Professional Genre Wiki By Brady McCubbins The three writing genres I chose are: 1. Research Papers 2. Graphs 3. Lectures notes

Research papers What is a research paper? A research paper is a well written piece of writing that has a primary goal to draw on what others have to say about a topic and engage the sources in order to thoughtfully offer a unique perspective on an issue at hand. There are many different types of research papers, I am primarily going to focus on Experimental Research papers. They are not used to inform the reader about what a certain topic or summation of something, but rather state findings and observations a scientist has found throughout experimental research. Furthermore, draw conclusions or some sort of analysis on why the thing they observed happened in the first place. Research papers are distributed usually on the internet and primarily peer reviewed by another scientist or peer before being published or utilized as evidence for other scientists. These papers are widely used by other scientists in the scientific community. They can further ideas other scientists have, further the ideas of the research paper itself, or even disprove your own findings. The whole point of the paper is to get everyone in the community brainstorming, every scientist is on the same team seeking truth. Furthermore, the main purpose of this genre is to add to the scientific community. The intent of the paper is to state all your observations and findings, adding to the vast encyclopedia of human knowledge. This genre is perceived as vital to the community, even Newton had to write research papers to justify his perception of the universe. The activities conducted to complete these papers are obviously RESEARCH! Although, many other steps go into making a research paper. For example, a plan on how you are actually going to conduct the experiment, who you are going to conduct it with, and a vast insight of the things you are studying (can not conduct a quantum mechanical experiment and not know what a photon is). Producing a research paper is not an easy task. It requires a lot of equipment not only internet to share the paper with your colleges, but a means of writing the paper itself. For example a keyboard, computer, pen, pencil, any computer program to create graphs or other sorts to produce images or communicate data effectively. On the surface it might only seem like a pen and some paper but it goes much deeper than that. As a scientist, ecology is very important. Their are two major concerns when writing a research paper: protect the environment/planet as much as possible, and ethics. An example of a research paper in the physics department at our very own Illinois State University is a paper on the progress of theoretical physics: Progress of Theoretical Physics. Kyoto, Japan: [publisher not identified], 1946. Print. https://i-share-isu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_ISU/1vcthfe/alma9921222771205845

Graphs There are many types of graphs, and many different uses for graphs. In this exert I am going to focus on scientific graphs, mainly physics graphs that Dr. Caplan and myself utilize in Physics 220 at Illinois State University. These type of graphs are almost always communicated online, through some sort of computer program. Whether it be excel, Microsoft Power Point, Mathmatica, or within our previous genre (research paper). Graphs are not simply used for scientists they are used in many other fields and careers in the 'real world'. Although this is the case, science and math related occupations utilize graphs extensively. Other people other than scientists, use graphs in a different sense, for example a data analyst could use a graph to communicate future revenue, or an "average joe" could use graphs to show his wife his stock market portfolio! The intended message of this genre within the realm of physics is to communicate data. Furthermore, data analysis. It helps communicate, visualize, and interpret data to glean useful information. The Reception of graphs help provide ethos to the author and can even help in getting my previous example research papers published. Furthermore, they make listening to your 'argument' much more appealing, people are more likely to believe you if you have a visual representation to help them comprehend what is actually being said. To make a graph you need to have some sort of research or data to put on the graph! So, before a scientist could even make a graph he needs some sort of data to put onto it, so an experiment of some sort would most likely have been conducted before, or certain measurements to calculate a thing would work as well. For example, a scientist could measure how far a ball travels down a hill in a certain amount of time. To make graphs it very important to have a computer, obviously we could go back to 3rd grade and have an arts and crafts project and make bar graphs out of Crayola's but that is not what I am describing. I am talking about scientific informative graphs. A coding engine like Python for example is a necessity to making graphs, there are many other options an author could utilize, this is just what is my personal preference. Furthermore, a keyboard and mouse is very helpful, simply a way to navigate and input commands into a computer program that makes graphs. Graphs are one of my favorite types of genres because it is incredibly Earth friendly! By using coding languages to create graphs millions of trees are saved every single year by making them on computers rather than on paper! To help you visualize what a sort of scientific graph would look like I made one for you! The three graphs I made are plots of x(t) 'distance as a function of time' for a driven damped linear oscillator I have only changed the parameters of the initial position from the origin to starting at 2 and the initial velocity to be zero. The plot is from 0 < t < 4. The main point that I wanted to be taken from this graph is that originally they are being affected by an outside driving force. After the driving force sort of 'dies down' it returns to a simple oscillator which appears as a sine or cosine wave.

Lecture Notes The last genre I chose to discuss are lecture notes.