Structure of Scientific Literature (Draft 3)

I found both articles that we were tasked with reading this week very interesting, they were also very similar structurally and information wise as well. After reading chapter 7 in the class required text the reason for the similarities is quite obvious, the methodically thought out structure allows a logical and strong flow of ideas making it extremely easy for the readers, even novel ones, to understand the topics at hand. As for the specific simlarites seen, one example is the  the level one headers, normally centered and bolded, of both articles contained both the title of the paper or large section, the authors and the publication information. The level 2 headers, which were bolded and orientated to the left, of the papers preceded to contain the section descriptions, such as introduction or abstract and indicated when a new topic or study was about to be discussed. When each section was broken down and looked at closely the similarites continued to appear. For each of the papers specific sections were structured similar to the way the whole paper was, but in an abbreviated version obviously. The individual section had 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 one building off of the last one. Each section was also responsible for providing new information and statistics of the overall topic. The similarities continued to be noticeable even when observing the individual paragraphs. For example they each had a topic sentence to either transition between paragraphs or introduce a new topic. This methodically thought out structure and the similarities seen throughout the field of scientific writing allow the ideas to be very logically organized and flow well. And the fact that each sentence continues to build on the ideas presented in the first and second level headers and the topic sentence of the specific paragraph really assists the reader in understanding the overall point of the paper.