Analytical Summary of Two Articles

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In this paper I reviewed two articles and provide an analytical summary of them both. The first article summarized analytically is Predictive Probes: Scientists are Focusing on Genes Predisposing People to Illnesses --- New Methods Will Facilitate Prevention but Will Raise Ethical, Legal Questions --- Should Employers Be Told? Written by Jerry E. Bishop. In this article, I identified the three ways that the author used evidence to support assertions. I went on to identify the places where evidence was employed as well as how the author used the evidence. I discussed the evidence “as the reason” vs. “the support for the reason.” I also discussed evidence as dependent on the issue and context. Lastly for this article, I analyzed how the author signaled the usage through elements with his word choices, transitions, and logical connections. The second article summarized analytically is Dark Prophecy: New Test Tells Whom a Crippling Disease Will Hit – and When --- Gene Responsible for Ataxia Has Same Flaw as Those Causing Some Cancers --- the ‘Stutter’ in the DNA by author Marilyn Chase. In this article, I identified the author’s use of the three elements: experiment, correlation, and speculation to support assertions, and analyzed how the author signals the use of these elements through language such as word choices, transitions, and logical connections.

There are three great examples of ways the author; Jerry E. Bishop; used evidence to support his assertions in the article, Predictive Probes: Scientists Are Focusing on (sic) Genes Predisposing People to Illnesses --- New Methods Will Facilitate Prevention but Will Raise Ethical, Legal Questions --- Should Employers Be Told? Bishop’s assertion that ethical and legal questions w...

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...ients now are choosing to conceive children -- only to face a prenatal testing dilemma.”

Works Cited

Bishop, J.E. (1984, September 12). Predictive probes: scientists are focusing on genes predisposing people to illnesses --- new methods will facilitate prevention but will raise ethical, legal questions --- should employers be told?. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved January 22, 2014, from http://search.proquest.com.libproxy.edmc.edu/docview/397923305/142BF1EC4C524F61E66/128?accountid=34899
Chase, M. (1993, December 8) Dark prophecy: new test tells whom a crippling disease will hit – and when --- gene responsible for ataxia has same flaw as those causing some cancers --- the ‘stutter’ in the DNA. The Wall Street Journal, p. A1. Retrieved, January 22, 2014, from http://search.proquest.com.libproxy.edmc.edu/docview/398480392/142BF2278516F21AA0D/168?accountid=34899

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