The blog I read, http://vetsbehavingbadly.blogspot.com/ is written by a veterinarian but instead of talking about how surgeries went or other seemingly normal veterinarian things, he talks, well more or less rants, about the clients and what he goes through on a daily basis to be a good vet. The style and delivery are not medically accurate most of the time. Basically anybody could read this blog and understand it. A bank teller could read it and be easily entertained because that's how he wants it to be. Furthermore, a fellow vet could read it and easily relate to it, well anybody with rude clientel could.
The scholarly article I chose to compare http://scopemed.org/?mno=21483 is written in a way that if you don't know medical terms, you will be completely lost. Its research on dilated cardiomyopathy in cats. I could only link the abstract form if you want to look, but the real thing is a long, drawn out paper about how it effects the cats and if they can be treated or not, but in a completely different style than the blog.
I was a little bit confused by this assignment, so I am really happy I stumbled upon your post. I really enjoyed reading the blog you posted, and was actually distracted by how entertaining it was! On the opposite end, even reading the abstract about cats and dilated cardiomyopathy had me confused from the start. There is a clear difference in the delivery styles you have presented and I think you did a great job discussing so.
ReplyDeleteI found pretty much the same trend with the blog and scholarly article I read: they are stark opposites! The blog was also slightly entertaining and very easy to read. Anyone could stumble upon it and understand completely what the writer was talking about. With the scholarly article, it was obvious you would have had to be a trained and educated professional in the field for it to be relavent, let alone understandable! I think blogs are more focused on allowing people who might have at least a slight interest in that field, therefore the language is easier to understand. A scholarly article is made by professionals for professionals; no one is expecting a random web-surfer to read it. Information from a scholarly article could be discussed in a blog, but with much more understandable language.
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