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Many have wondered or even noticed if people that are more attractive get treated better than the ones who are less attractive. I have recently read two articles on whether this is true or not; turns out, the statement is true most of the time. I read the article; Viren Swammi wrote on YouBeauty.com called “Do Attractive People Get Preferential Treatment”. You beauty is a website that gives people beauty tips and general information. The other article I read was one that had done an abundant amount of research. The article was a peer reviewed scholarly article; the article was written by Angela M Griffen and Langlois H Judith the article was titled “Stereotype Directionality And Attractiveness Stereotyping: Is Beauty Good Or Is Ugly Bad?” The writing between the two pieces of writing is exceptionally diverse. The mass media article was much more broad and addressed everybody as a whole, while the scholarly article was much more in depth and addressed mainly other grad students studying that study. Each article made their claims in their own way. Also the way sources were used in the paper was different. Overall both articles were interesting, but one was more informative and direct than the other.
Depending on what you are reading you will notice that the audience that an author writes for varies from genre to genre. The scholarly article had aimed for an audience that was studying the same thing as they were writing about; while, the mass media article had got an audience that was very general. It was easy to point out the differences between the two articles because in the mass media the speak broadly about the topic, in a language that everyone will know instead of only words psychology doctors would know. The article “Do Att...

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...difference between a mass media article, and a scholarly article there are several differences. The main thing that shapes the majority of these differences is that the value of the subject is different. The mass media concentrates more on opinion and personal experience; meaning the value of the mass media is that they were trying to prove to people that looks really do matter. The authors based their facts stated off points that have proven that people are treated better if they are attractive. But the scholarly article was based on facts and actual research being done; the value in the scholarly article was trying to decide if the idea of attractive people getting treated better is true or not. Authors wrote paragraphs on why they thought that attractiveness were a positive, and why it was a negative. Overall the scholarly was better rounded than the mass media.