Structure of Scientific Literature (Draft 2)

I found both articels that we were tasked with reading this week very interesting, they were also very similar in the way they were structured. After reading chapter 7 the reason for the similarities is quite obvious, it allows a logical and strong flow of ideas and makes it easier for the readers to understand the topics at hand. As for specific simlarites scene one example is the  the level one headers of both articles contained the title of the paper, the authors and the publication information. The level 2 headers of the papers preceded to contain the section descriptions, such as introduction or abstract and are placed when a new topic or study is about to be discussed. When each section was broken down and looked at the similarites continued to appear. For the papers each section is structured similar to the way of the whole paper is but in an abbreviated version obviously, they have intro paragraphs, normally the first paragraph of each section, to introduce the information and then the sections continue on, providing new statistics and information. Each section was also responsible for providing new information and statistics of the overall topic. As for the individual paragraphs they each had a topic sentence to either transition the paragraphs or introduce a new topic. This methodical structure and the similarities seen throughout the scientific field allow the ideas to be very logically organized and flow well. And the fact that each sentence continues to build on the idea presented in the second header and the topic sentence of the specific paragraph really assists the reader in understanding the overall point of the paper.